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description: I have sworn a solemn oath that I will receive nothing without receiving chastisement, and if you knew all, you would feel that the punishment is not a tenth part of what I deserve." Who acts: I, solemn oath, you, punishment. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening,
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 10

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I have sworn a solemn oath that I will receive nothing without receiving chastisement, and if you knew all, you would feel that the punishment is not a tenth part of what I deserve."

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**Who acts:** I, solemn oath, you, punishment · **What happens:** swear, receive, know, feel, not be, deserve · **To what, where:** solemn oath, nothing, chastisement, all, tenth part

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, solemn oath, you, punishment), 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:pg128:33:10
# text = I have sworn a solemn oath that I will receive nothing without receiving chastisement, and if you knew all, you would feel that the punishment is not a tenth part of what I deserve."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	sworn	swear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	solemn	solemn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	oath	oath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	10	obj	_	_
12	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	receiving	receive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
14	chastisement	chastisement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	tenth	tenth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	advcl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nmod	_	_
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	deserve	deserve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swear** | present · perfect | I | a solemn oath |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent oath=Eventuality |
| 2 | **receive** | future | a solemn oath | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme |
| 3 | **receive** | gerund | a solemn oath *not said here* | chastisement |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chastisement=Theme |
| 4 | **know** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you | all |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer all=Stimulus |
| 5 | **feel** | would | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **not** **is a** | present | the punishment | a tenth part |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **deserve** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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