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title: Another time pray believe me when I assert anything." — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Another time pray believe me when I assert anything." Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 110

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Another time pray believe me when I assert anything."

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** pray, believe, assert · **To what, where:** me, anything

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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:pg128:23:110
# text = Another time pray believe me when I assert anything."
1	Another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	pray	pray	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	assert	assert	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pray** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **believe** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
| 3 | **assert** | present | I | anything |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=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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