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title: Instead, therefore, of returning to your own country, take my daught… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Instead, therefore, of returning to your own country, take my daughter and my crown and stay with us. Who acts: you, my. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 21

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Instead, therefore, of returning to your own country, take my daughter and my crown and stay with us.

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**Who acts:** you, my · **What happens:** return, take, stay, crown · **To what, where:** daughter

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg128:26:21
# text = Instead, therefore, of returning to your own country, take my daughter and my crown and stay with us.
1	Instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	returning	return	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
12	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to your own country *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to country=Result |
| 2 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | my daughter and my crown |  |  | therefore *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument daughter=Destination |
| 3 | **stay** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with us | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with we=Location |
| 4 | **crown** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication transitive»: 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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