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title: But beware lest you touch your right eye with it, or your sight will… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: But beware lest you touch your right eye with it, or your sight will be destroyed for ever." Who acts: you, your. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 101

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But beware lest you touch your right eye with it, or your sight will be destroyed for ever."

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**Who acts:** you, your · **What happens:** beware, touch, destroy, sight · **To what, where:** right eye, sight

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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 (you, your), 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:pg128:33:101
# text = But beware lest you touch your right eye with it, or your sight will be destroyed for ever."
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	beware	beware	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	touch	touch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beware** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **touch** | present | you | your right eye |  |  |  | with treasure | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent eye=Experiencer with it=Instrument |
| 3 | **destroy** | future · passive |  | your sight |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **sight** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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