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title: "Take this to your mistress, my friend, and if on reading it and see… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Take this to your mistress, my friend, and if on reading it and seeing its contents she is not instantly cured, you may call me an impudent impostor." Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 41

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"Take this to your mistress, my friend, and if on reading it and seeing its contents she is not instantly cured, you may call me an impudent impostor."

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** take, read, see, not cure, call · **To what, where:** this, mistress, friend, contents, Having · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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), 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:pg128:25:41
# text = "Take this to your mistress, my friend, and if on reading it and seeing its contents she is not instantly cured, you may call me an impudent impostor."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	reading	read	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	contents	contents	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	17	obj	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	cured	cure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	impudent	impudent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	impostor	impostor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | this | your mistress |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent this=Theme to mistress=Destination |
| 2 | **read** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* | friend |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* | friend's contents |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer contents=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **cure** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | mistress |  |  |  | instantly *property* | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Source |
| 5 | **call** *in a quote* | may | you |  | Having |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |

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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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