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title: Possibly I may not always be in this mind, but I certainly feel that… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Possibly I may not always be in this mind, but I certainly feel that it will require some time to induce me to take the step which your Majesty desires." Who acts: I, idea, Majesty. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 83

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Possibly I may not always be in this mind, but I certainly feel that it will require some time to induce me to take the step which your Majesty desires."

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**Who acts:** I, idea, Majesty · **What happens:** not be, feel, require, induce, take, desire · **To what, where:** mind, me, step

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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, idea, Majesty), 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:pg128:22:83
# text = Possibly I may not always be in this mind, but I certainly feel that it will require some time to induce me to take the step which your Majesty desires."
1	Possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	9	advmod	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	require	require	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	induce	induce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obj	_	_
29	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	Majesty	majesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	desires	desire	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | may | I |  |  | this mind |  | always, possibly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **feel** | present | I |  |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **require** | future | idea |  |  |  | time |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **induce** | to-infinitive | idea *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Patient clause=Result |
| 5 | **take** | to-infinitive | idea *not said here* | the step |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme |
| 6 | **desire** | present | your Majesty | the step |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot which=Theme |

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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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