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title: I will set out at once to explore other countries, and when you hear… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I will set out at once to explore other countries, and when you hear of my return be sure that he for whom you sigh is not far off." Who acts: I, you, my. 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 77

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I will set out at once to explore other countries, and when you hear of my return be sure that he for whom you sigh is not far off."

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**Who acts:** I, you, my · **What happens:** set out, explore, hear, be, sigh, return · **To what, where:** other countries

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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 (I, you, my), 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:pg128:24:77
# text = I will set out at once to explore other countries, and when you hear of my return be sure that he for whom you sigh is not far off."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	explore	explore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
13	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	15	mark	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
20	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
21	that	that	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	obl	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	sigh	sigh	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
30	off	off	ADV	RB	_	20	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set out** | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **explore** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | other countries |  |  |  |  | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent country=Location |
| 3 | **hear** | present | you |  |  |  |  | of my return | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of return=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | that patience; sure *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **sigh** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | present | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | far, off *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **return** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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