--- title: I tell thee I will take the slave, and as to the purse, if it contai… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: I tell thee I will take the slave, and as to the purse, if it contains silver thou mayst keep one piece, if gold then I will take all and give thee what copper pieces I have in my purse." Who acts: I, slave, silver, gold. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, par --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/30/39/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/30/) / 39 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 39 I tell thee I will take the slave, and as to the purse, if it contains silver thou mayst keep one piece, if gold then I will take all and give thee what copper pieces I have in my purse." **Who acts:** I, slave, silver, gold · **What happens:** tell, take, contain, keep, give, piece · **To what, where:** thee, slave, one piece, all, copper pieces, purse · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, slave, silver, gold), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg128:30:39 # text = I tell thee I will take the slave, and as to the purse, if it contains silver thou mayst keep one piece, if gold then I will take all and give thee what copper pieces I have in my purse." 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 2 iobj _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 slave slave NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 as as ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 14 case _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 11 fixed _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 purse purse NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 if if SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 contains contain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 19 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 20 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 22 nsubj _ _ 21 mayst may AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 parataxis _ _ 23 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 if if SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 27 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 28 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 31 advmod _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 32 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 31 obj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 35 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 34 iobj _ _ 36 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 38 nsubj _ _ 37 copper copper NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 39 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 acl:relcl _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 purse purse NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | I | | thee | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **take** | future | I | the slave | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Theme | | 3 | **contain** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | slave | | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **keep** | may | silver | one piece | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | | 5 | **take** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | gold | all | | | then | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme | | 6 | **give** | infinitive | gold *not said here* | | thee | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | | 7 | **piece** | | | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **have** | present | I | copper pieces *not said here* | | my purse | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/30/38/) - next →: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/30/40/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/30/)