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description: But before I allow you all four to return to your own homes, and have the corpse of the hunchback properly buried, I should like to see this barber who has earned your pardon. Who acts: I, you, barber, your. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22, with its
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 42

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But before I allow you all four to return to your own homes, and have the corpse of the hunchback properly buried, I should like to see this barber who has earned your pardon.

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**Who acts:** I, you, barber, your · **What happens:** allow, return, have, bury, like, see · **To what, where:** four, you, corpse, hunchback, barber, pardon

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, barber, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg128:22:42
# text = But before I allow you all four to return to your own homes, and have the corpse of the hunchback properly buried, I should like to see this barber who has earned your pardon.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
2	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	allow	allow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	have	have	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	corpse	corpse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	hunchback	hunchback	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	barber	barber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
33	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	earned	earn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	acl:relcl	_	_
35	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	pardon	pardon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **allow** | present | I | all four | you |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **return** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to your own homes *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result |
| 3 | **have** | imperative | you *not said here* | the corpse of the hunchback |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corpse=Patient |
| 4 | **bury** | participle |  | the hunchback *not said here* |  |  |  | properly *property* | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **like** | should | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | this barber |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer barber=Stimulus |
| 7 | **earn** | present · perfect | this barber | your pardon |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pardon=Theme |
| 8 | **pardon** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom pardon «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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