--- title: This would attach him to his home, and your Majesty might give him a… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: This would attach him to his home, and your Majesty might give him a share in your counsels, so that he might gradually learn how to wear a crown, which you can give up to him whenever you find him capable of wearing it." Who acts: This, Majesty, you. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/22/76/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/22/) / 76 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 76 This would attach him to his home, and your Majesty might give him a share in your counsels, so that he might gradually learn how to wear a crown, which you can give up to him whenever you find him capable of wearing it." **Who acts:** This, Majesty, you · **What happens:** attach, give, learn, wear, give up, find · **To what, where:** Majesty, share, man, counsels, crown 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 (This, Majesty, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg128:22:76 # text = This would attach him to his home, and your Majesty might give him a share in your counsels, so that he might gradually learn how to wear a crown, which you can give up to him whenever you find him capable of wearing it." 1 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 attach attach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 Majesty majesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 iobj _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 share share NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 counsels counsel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 26 mark _ _ 22 that that SCONJ IN _ 21 fixed _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 gradually gradually ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 27 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 29 advmod _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 wear wear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 crown crown NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 obj _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 acl:relcl _ _ 37 up up ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ _ 40 whenever whenever ADV WRB PronType=Rel 42 advmod _ _ 41 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ _ 43 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obj _ _ 44 capable capable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 xcomp _ _ 45 of of SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 46 wearing wear VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 44 advcl _ _ 47 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **attach** | would | This | Majesty | | | | to Majesty's home | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Patient to home=Co-Patient | | 2 | **give** | might | your Majesty | a share | man | your counsels | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient share=Theme | | 3 | **learn** | might | Majesty | | | | | gradually *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **wear** | to-infinitive | Majesty *not said here* | a crown | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent crown=Theme | | 5 | **give up** | can | you | a crown | Majesty | | | | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Theme to he=Recipient | | 6 | **find** | present | you | Majesty | | | | capable, whenever *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | | 7 | **wear** | gerund | you *not said here* | crown | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/22/75/) - next →: [sentence 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/22/77/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/22/)