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title: Remember riches sometimes have wings if we keep them for ourselves,… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Remember riches sometimes have wings if we keep them for ourselves, and the poor are at our gates expressly that we may help them." Who acts: you, riches, we, poor gates. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 88

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Remember riches sometimes have wings if we keep them for ourselves, and the poor are at our gates expressly that we may help them."

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**Who acts:** you, riches, we, poor gates · **What happens:** remember, have, keep, be, help · **To what, where:** wings, poor gates · **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, riches, we, poor gates), 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:pg128:33:88
# text = Remember riches sometimes have wings if we keep them for ourselves, and the poor are at our gates expressly that we may help them."
1	Remember	remember	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
5	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
20	expressly	expressly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | riches | wings |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient |
| 3 | **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | we | wings *= wing* |  |  |  | for ourselves | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  | our poor gates |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **help** | may | our poor gates | wings *= wing* |  |  |  | expressly *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary |

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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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