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title: "If what you tell me, Princess, is indeed the case, I do not despair… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "If what you tell me, Princess, is indeed the case, I do not despair of finding comfort for you. Who acts: you, Princess, I, despair. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 75

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"If what you tell me, Princess, is indeed the case, I do not despair of finding comfort for you.

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**Who acts:** you, Princess, I, despair · **What happens:** tell, be, not despair, find · **To what, where:** me, case, comfort · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Princess, I, despair), 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:pg128:24:75
# text = "If what you tell me, Princess, is indeed the case, I do not despair of finding comfort for you.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	_
19	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	finding	find	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
21	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | you |  | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient what=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Princess | the case |  |  |  | indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **despair** *in a quote* | present · do-support | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **find** *in a quote* | gerund | despair *not said here* | comfort |  |  |  | for you | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent comfort=Theme for you=Beneficiary |

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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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