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title: "Make your camels lie down in this open space," he said, "so that we… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Make your camels lie down in this open space," he said, "so that we can easily load them; then we will go to the treasure." Who acts: you, camels, space, we. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 53

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"Make your camels lie down in this open space," he said, "so that we can easily load them; then we will go to the treasure."

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**Who acts:** you, camels, space, we · **What happens:** make, lie down, say, load, go · **To what, where:** open space, camels, treasure · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, camels, space, we), 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:pg128:33:53
# text = "Make your camels lie down in this open space," he said, "so that we can easily load them; then we will go to the treasure."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	camels	camel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	22	mark	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	load	load	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
26	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **lie down** *in a quote* | present | your camels |  |  |  |  | down *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | space |  |  | this open space |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in space=Manner |
| 4 | **load** *in a quote* | can | we | camels *= camel* |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 5 | **go** *in a quote* | future | we |  |  | the treasure | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to treasure=Initial\_Location |

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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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