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title: Giving him one last embrace, I observed accidentally, "What are you… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Giving him one last embrace, I observed accidentally, "What are you going to do with that little box of ointment? Who acts: I. 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 91

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Giving him one last embrace, I observed accidentally, "What are you going to do with that little box of ointment?

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** give, observe, go, do · **To what, where:** one last embrace, use

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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), 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:pg128:33:91
# text = Giving him one last embrace, I observed accidentally, "What are you going to do with that little box of ointment?
1	Giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	embrace	embrace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	observed	observe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	accidentally	accidentally	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	ointment	ointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | gerund | I *not said here* | one last embrace | use |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient embrace=Theme |
| 2 | **observe** | past | I |  |  |  |  | accidentally *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with that little box of ointment | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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