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title: But, indeed, I have no inclination to change my state, for where cou… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: But, indeed, I have no inclination to change my state, for where could I find so happy a life amidst so many beautiful and delightful surroundings? Who acts: I, inclination. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 35

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But, indeed, I have no inclination to change my state, for where could I find so happy a life amidst so many beautiful and delightful surroundings?

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**Who acts:** I, inclination · **What happens:** have, change, find · **To what, where:** inclination, state, happy life amidst

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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, inclination), 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:pg128:23:35
# text = But, indeed, I have no inclination to change my state, for where could I find so happy a life amidst so many beautiful and delightful surroundings?
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	inclination	inclination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	amidst	amidst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
26	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	delightful	delightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
29	surroundings	surroundings	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | I | no inclination |  |  |  | indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **change** | to-infinitive | no inclination *not said here* | my state |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=Patient |
| 3 | **find** | could | I | a happy life amidst |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent amidst=Theme surroundings=Attribute |

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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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