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title: "Take it back," she said, "I could not keep it without returning you… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Take it back," she said, "I could not keep it without returning yours to you, and I am resolved to wear that as long as I live." Who acts: you, princess. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 48

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"Take it back," she said, "I could not keep it without returning yours to you, and I am resolved to wear that as long as I live."

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**Who acts:** you, princess · **What happens:** take back, say, not keep, return, resolve, wear · **To what, where:** ring, yours, you, princess, that · **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, princess), 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:pg128:25:48
# text = "Take it back," she said, "I could not keep it without returning yours to you, and I am resolved to wear that as long as I live."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	returning	return	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
18	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	obj	_	_
29	as	as	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
31	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take back** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | ring |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **keep** *in a quote* | could | princess | ring |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **return** *in a quote* | gerund | princess *not said here* | yours | you |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent your=Theme to you=Destination |
| 5 | **resolve** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | princess |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **wear** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | that |  |  |  | long *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent that=Source |
| 7 | **live** *in a quote* | present | princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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