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title: I will interest him at the same time in your behalf, and this will b… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I will interest him at the same time in your behalf, and this will be worth much more to you than what extra money you might obtain from the merchants." " Who acts: this, extra money. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29, with its dependency tree and the
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 32

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I will interest him at the same time in your behalf, and this will be worth much more to you than what extra money you might obtain from the merchants." "

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**Who acts:** this, extra money · **What happens:** be, obtain · **To what, where:** you, merchants

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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 (this, extra money), 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:pg128:29:32
# text = I will interest him at the same time in your behalf, and this will be worth much more to you than what extra money you might obtain from the merchants." "
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	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	behalf	behalf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
17	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
18	much	much	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
22	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
23	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	28	obj	_	_
24	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	obtain	obtain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	csubj	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | future | this |  | you |  |  | worth *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **obtain** | might | extra money |  |  | the merchants |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent what=Theme from merchant=Source |

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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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