--- title: You do not realise the burden that you lay upon yourself, when you g… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: You do not realise the burden that you lay upon yourself, when you gather into your hands such great wealth, besides the fact that no one, who is not accustomed to camels from his birth, can ever manage the stubborn beasts. Who acts: You, burden. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/33/71/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/33/) / 71 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 71 You do not realise the burden that you lay upon yourself, when you gather into your hands such great wealth, besides the fact that no one, who is not accustomed to camels from his birth, can ever manage the stubborn beasts. **Who acts:** You, burden · **What happens:** not realise, lay, gather, not accustom, manage · **To what, where:** burden, hands, one, stubborn beasts 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, burden), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg128:33:71 # text = You do not realise the burden that you lay upon yourself, when you gather into your hands such great wealth, besides the fact that no one, who is not accustomed to camels from his birth, can ever manage the stubborn beasts. 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 realise realise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 burden burden NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 10 upon upon ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 gather gather VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 16 into into ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 19 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 wealth wealth NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 besides besides ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 fact fact NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 26 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 28 det _ _ 28 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 accustomed accustom VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 acl:relcl _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 camels camel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 36 from from ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 40 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 41 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 42 advmod _ _ 42 manage manage VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 stubborn stubborn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 beasts beast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **realise** | present · do-support | You | the burden | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **lay** | present | the burden | | | | | upon yourself | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon yourself=Destination | | 3 | **gather** | present | you | your hands | | | | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | | 4 | **not** **accustom** | present · passive | | no one | | | | to camels from profession's birth | tree rules | | 5 | **manage** | can | | the stubborn beasts | | | ever | besides the fact | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/33/70/) - next →: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/33/72/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/33/)