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title: But no, it will be better if I throw you into the sea whence I drew… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: But no, it will be better if I throw you into the sea whence I drew you out, and I will build a house on the shore to warn fishermen who come to cast their nets here, against fishing up such a wicked genius as you are, who vows to kill the man who frees you." Who acts: death, I, fishermen, you. A se
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 119

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But no, it will be better if I throw you into the sea whence I drew you out, and I will build a house on the shore to warn fishermen who come to cast their nets here, against fishing up such a wicked genius as you are, who vows to kill the man who frees you."

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**Who acts:** death, I, fishermen, you, man · **What happens:** be, throw, draw out, build, warn, come · **To what, where:** you, sea, house, shore, fishermen, nets

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (death, I, fishermen, you), 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:pg128:3:119
# text = But no, it will be better if I throw you into the sea whence I drew you out, and I will build a house on the shore to warn fishermen who come to cast their nets here, against fishing up such a wicked genius as you are, who vows to kill the man who frees you."
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	throw	throw	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	warn	warn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
32	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
33	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	cast	cast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	nets	net	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	_
39	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	against	against	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
42	fishing	fish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
43	up	up	ADP	RP	_	42	compound:prt	_	_
44	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	47	det:predet	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	genius	genius	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl:unmarked	_	_
48	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
49	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
52	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	53	nsubj	_	_
53	vows	vow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	advcl	_	_
54	to	to	PART	TO	_	55	mark	_	_
55	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	xcomp	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obj	_	_
58	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	59	nsubj	_	_
59	frees	free	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	57	acl:relcl	_	_
60	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	59	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | future | death |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **throw** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I | you |  |  |  | into the sea *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer you=Theme into sea=Result |
| 3 | **draw out** | past | I | you |  |  |  | whence *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 4 | **build** | future | I | a house |  | the shore |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent house=Theme on shore=Source |
| 5 | **warn** *speech: warn* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | fishermen |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fisherman=Recipient |
| 6 | **come** | present | fishermen |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **cast** | to-infinitive | fishermen *not said here* | feet's nets |  | here |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Product |
| 8 | **fish up** | gerund | I *not said here* | such wicked genius |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **does** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **vow** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 11 | **kill** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | the man |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 12 | **free** | present | the man | you |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer you=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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