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description: I will come to his aid, and while pointing out that you only yield his life at my supplications, you can force him to take the beautiful Persian on any conditions you please." Who acts: I, you, vizir, my. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28, with its de
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 72

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I will come to his aid, and while pointing out that you only yield his life at my supplications, you can force him to take the beautiful Persian on any conditions you please."

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**Who acts:** I, you, vizir, my · **What happens:** come, point out, yield, force, take, supplicate · **To what, where:** aid, life, supplications, vizir, beautiful Persian, conditions

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, vizir, 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:pg128:28:72
# text = I will come to his aid, and while pointing out that you only yield his life at my supplications, you can force him to take the beautiful Persian on any conditions you please."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
9	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	yield	yield	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	supplications	supplication	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	force	force	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	Persian	persian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	obj	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	det	_	_
33	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
35	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	27	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | future | I |  |  | vizir's aid |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to aid=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **point out** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **yield** | present | you | vizir's life |  | my supplications |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
| 4 | **force** | can | you | vizir |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **take** | to-infinitive | vizir *not said here* | the beautiful Persian |  | any conditions |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument persian=Theme you=Destination |
| 6 | **supplicate** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom supplication «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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