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title: "Fear nothing," said the Caliph, "only rise up and draw thy nets." — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Fear nothing," said the Caliph, "only rise up and draw thy nets." Who acts: nothing. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 8

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"Fear nothing," said the Caliph, "only rise up and draw thy nets."

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**Who acts:** nothing · **What happens:** say, rise up, draw · **To what, where:** nets · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (nothing), 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:pg128:30:8
# text = "Fear nothing," said the Caliph, "only rise up and draw thy nets."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	rise	rise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	draw	draw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
16	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	nets	net	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | nothing |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **rise up** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **draw** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | thy nets |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=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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