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description: What you must do," he said, "is to pretend that you had no real intention of selling your slave, and only swore you would in a fit of anger against her. Who acts: you, Noureddin, real intention. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29, with its dependency t
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 20

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What you must do," he said, "is to pretend that you had no real intention of selling your slave, and only swore you would in a fit of anger against her.

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**Who acts:** you, Noureddin, real intention · **What happens:** do, say, be, have, sell, swear · **To what, where:** real intention, slave, fit · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Noureddin, real intention), 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:pg128:29:20
# text = What you must do," he said, "is to pretend that you had no real intention of selling your slave, and only swore you would in a fit of anger against her.
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	pretend	pretend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
18	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	intention	intention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	selling	sell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
22	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	only	only	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	swore	swear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	fit	fit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	against	against	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | must | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Noureddin |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | pretend *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | past | you | no real intention |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intention=Patient |
| 5 | **sell** | gerund | no real intention *not said here* | your slave |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Theme |
| 6 | **swear** | past |  |  |  | a fit of anger against Hagi |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=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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