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title: It is clear that these riches are intended for you, and they are muc… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: It is clear that these riches are intended for you, and they are much more needed by a prince like yourself than by an old man like me, who am near my end and require nothing. Who acts: prince, old man. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26, with its depe
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 70

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It is clear that these riches are intended for you, and they are much more needed by a prince like yourself than by an old man like me, who am near my end and require nothing.

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**Who acts:** prince, old man · **What happens:** be, intend, need, require · **To what, where:** riches, end, nothing

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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 (prince, old man), 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:pg128:26:70
# text = It is clear that these riches are intended for you, and they are much more needed by a prince like yourself than by an old man like me, who am near my end and require nothing.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	expl	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	intended	intend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
15	much	much	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
17	needed	need	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	nmod	_	_
23	than	than	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
28	like	like	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
32	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
33	near	near	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	require	require	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
38	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | clear *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **intend** | present · passive |  | this riches |  |  |  | for you | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **need** | present · passive | a prince like yourself | riches *= rich* |  |  |  | than a old man like me and my end | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | a old man like me and my end |  |  |  | near my end |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **require** | present | a prince like yourself *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme nothing=Precondition |

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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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