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title: You and your wife and your palace deserve to be burnt to ashes; but… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: You and your wife and your palace deserve to be burnt to ashes; but this request does not come from you, but from the brother of the African magician whom you destroyed. Who acts: You, request. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32, with its dependency tr
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 100

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You and your wife and your palace deserve to be burnt to ashes; but this request does not come from you, but from the brother of the African magician whom you destroyed.

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**Who acts:** You, request · **What happens:** deserve, burnt, not come, destroy · **To what, where:** African magician

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, request), 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:pg128:32:100
# text = You and your wife and your palace deserve to be burnt to ashes; but this request does not come from you, but from the brother of the African magician whom you destroyed.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
8	deserve	deserve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	burnt	burnt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	xcomp	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
32	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	obj	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deserve** | present | You |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **burnt** | to-infinitive · passive | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to ashes | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **come** | present · do-support | this request |  |  |  |  | from you; from the brother of the African magician | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from you=Initial\_Location from brother=Destination |
| 4 | **destroy** | past | you | the African magician |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient |

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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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