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title: I must tell you that I come from the furthest end of China, which is… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I must tell you that I come from the furthest end of China, which is one of the largest and most powerful kingdoms in the world. Who acts: I, furthest end. 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 24

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I must tell you that I come from the furthest end of China, which is one of the largest and most powerful kingdoms in the world.

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**Who acts:** I, furthest end · **What happens:** tell, come, be · **To what, where:** you, furthest end, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, furthest end), 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:pg128:23:24
# text = I must tell you that I come from the furthest end of China, which is one of the largest and most powerful kingdoms in the world.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	furthest	furth	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
20	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	amod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	23	advmod	_	_
23	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
24	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | must | I |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 2 | **come** | present | I |  |  |  | from the furthest end of China |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from end=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the furthest end of China | one |  |  |  | of the largest kingdoms in the world | tree rules |

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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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