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title: He is a debtor of mine and must be brought here at once, or I will c… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: He is a debtor of mine and must be brought here at once, or I will confiscate all your merchandise. Who acts: captain, I. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 25

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He is a debtor of mine and must be brought here at once, or I will confiscate all your merchandise.

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**Who acts:** captain, I · **What happens:** be, bring, confiscate · **To what, where:** debtor, merchandise

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (captain, I), 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:pg128:27:25
# text = He is a debtor of mine and must be brought here at once, or I will confiscate all your merchandise.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	debtor	debtor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
11	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	confiscate	confiscate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	merchandise	merchandise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | captain | a debtor |  |  |  | of mine | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring** | must · passive | captain *not said here* |  |  | here |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together» |
| 3 | **confiscate** | future | I | your merchandise |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merchandise=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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