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title: Allah alone can grant your desire, and I should advise you, sire, to… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Allah alone can grant your desire, and I should advise you, sire, to send large gifts to those holy men who spend their lives in prayer, and to beg for their intercessions. Who acts: Allah, I, holy men, your. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22, with it
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 66

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Allah alone can grant your desire, and I should advise you, sire, to send large gifts to those holy men who spend their lives in prayer, and to beg for their intercessions.

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**Who acts:** Allah, I, holy men, your, gifts · **What happens:** grant, advise, send, spend, beg, desire · **To what, where:** desire, you, large gifts, holy men, lives, prayer

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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 (Allah, I, holy men, 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:pg128:22:66
# text = Allah alone can grant your desire, and I should advise you, sire, to send large gifts to those holy men who spend their lives in prayer, and to beg for their intercessions.
1	Allah	Allah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	grant	grant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	advise	advise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	sire	sire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
18	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
22	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	spend	spend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	beg	beg	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	intercessions	intercession	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grant** | can | Allah | your desire |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent desire=Theme |
| 2 | **advise** *speech: other* | should | I |  | you |  |  | sire *vocative* | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 3 | **send** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | large gifts | that holy men |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gift=Theme to man=Destination |
| 4 | **spend** | present | that holy men | gifts's lives |  | prayer |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Asset |
| 5 | **beg** *speech: request* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for gifts's intercessions | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for intercession=Topic |
| 6 | **desire** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **intercede** |  | gifts *= gift* |  |  |  |  |  | nom intercession «communication intransitive»: 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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