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title: Think what it is to be blind, and do not force me to do what you wil… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Think what it is to be blind, and do not force me to do what you will repent as long as you live." Who acts: you, evil, me. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 13

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Think what it is to be blind, and do not force me to do what you will repent as long as you live."

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**Who acts:** you, evil, me · **What happens:** think, be, not force, not do, repent, live · **To what, where:** me

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, evil, me), 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:pg128:34:13
# text = Think what it is to be blind, and do not force me to do what you will repent as long as you live."
1	Think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	1	obj	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	force	force	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	obj	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	repent	repent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
20	as	as	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | evil |  |  |  |  | blind *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **force** | infinitive · do-support |  | me |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **do** | to-infinitive | me *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **repent** | future | you |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **live** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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