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title: "I cannot treat you in any other way," said the genius, "and if you… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "I cannot treat you in any other way," said the genius, "and if you would know why, listen to my story. Who acts: genius, you. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 94

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"I cannot treat you in any other way," said the genius, "and if you would know why, listen to my story.

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**Who acts:** genius, you · **What happens:** not treat, say, know, listen · **To what, where:** you, other way · **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 (genius, 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:pg128:3:94
# text = "I cannot treat you in any other way," said the genius, "and if you would know why, listen to my story.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	treat	treat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	genius	genius	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
23	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	listen	listen	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **treat** *in a quote* | can | the genius *= genius* |  | you | any other way |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the genius |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **know** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | would | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **listen** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to my story | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to story=Theme |

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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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