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title: It would but renew my trouble to tell of all the misfortunes that ha… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: It would but renew my trouble to tell of all the misfortunes that have befallen me in a year, and have brought me to this state." Who acts: It, misfortunes, my. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 2

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It would but renew my trouble to tell of all the misfortunes that have befallen me in a year, and have brought me to this state."

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**Who acts:** It, misfortunes, my · **What happens:** renew, tell, befall, bring, trouble · **To what, where:** trouble, me, state · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (It, misfortunes, 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:pg128:3:2
# text = It would but renew my trouble to tell of all the misfortunes that have befallen me in a year, and have brought me to this state."
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	renew	renew	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	befallen	befall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **renew** | would | It | my trouble |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent trouble=Patient |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  | my trouble *not said here* |  |  |  | of all misfortunes | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **befall** | present · perfect | all misfortunes | me |  |  | year |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bring** | present · perfect |  | me |  | this state |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to state=Destination |
| 5 | **trouble** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom trouble «cognition 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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