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title: "My son, the great thing now is to arrange how you can best carry of… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "My son, the great thing now is to arrange how you can best carry off this treasure as secretly as possible for fear of losing it. Who acts: son, you, fear. 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 74

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"My son, the great thing now is to arrange how you can best carry off this treasure as secretly as possible for fear of losing it.

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**Who acts:** son, you, fear · **What happens:** be, carry off, lose · **To what, where:** treasure

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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 (son, you, fear), 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:pg128:26:74
# text = "My son, the great thing now is to arrange how you can best carry off this treasure as secretly as possible for fear of losing it.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
8	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	arrange	arrange	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	nsubj	_	_
16	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
17	off	off	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	as	as	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	advcl	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
26	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | My son |  |  |  |  | arrange *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry off** *in a quote* | can | you | this treasure |  |  |  | for fear; secretly *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme |
| 3 | **lose** *in a quote* | gerund | fear *not said here* | treasure |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

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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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