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title: Should you deign to return it to him he will be the happiest of mort… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Should you deign to return it to him he will be the happiest of mortals, if not he will cheerfully resign himself to death, seeing he does so for love of you. Who acts: you, Prince. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 38

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Should you deign to return it to him he will be the happiest of mortals, if not he will cheerfully resign himself to death, seeing he does so for love of you.

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**Who acts:** you, Prince · **What happens:** deign, return, be, not resign, see, do · **To what, where:** ring, Prince, death, love, you

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Prince), 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:pg128:25:38
# text = Should you deign to return it to him he will be the happiest of mortals, if not he will cheerfully resign himself to death, seeing he does so for love of you.
1	Should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	deign	deign	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	happiest	happy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	advcl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	mortals	mortal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	cheerfully	cheerfully	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	resign	resign	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
23	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deign** | should | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **return** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | ring | Prince |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | future | Prince |  |  |  |  | of mortals; happy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **resign** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | Prince | Prince | death |  |  | cheerfully *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to death=Recipient |
| 5 | **see** | gerund | Prince *not said here* | Prince |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 6 | **do** | present | you *not said here* | love of you |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Eventuality |
| 7 | **love** |  |  | you |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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