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title: You have most generously responded to my wishes up to this time, do… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: You have most generously responded to my wishes up to this time, do not spoil my recollection of you for a thing of such little consequence. Who acts: You, my. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 16

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You have most generously responded to my wishes up to this time, do not spoil my recollection of you for a thing of such little consequence.

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**Who acts:** You, my · **What happens:** respond, not spoil, wish, recollect · **To what, where:** recollection, you

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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, my), 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:pg128:34:16
# text = You have most generously responded to my wishes up to this time, do not spoil my recollection of you for a thing of such little consequence.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	_
4	generously	generously	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	responded	respond	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	wishes	wish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	up	up	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	spoil	spoil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	recollection	recollection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	consequence	consequence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **respond** *speech: other* | present · perfect | You |  |  |  | time | to my wishes; generously *property* | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to wish=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **spoil** | infinitive · do-support | You *not said here* | my recollection of you |  |  |  | for a thing of such little consequence | tree rules |
| 3 | **wish** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **recollect** |  | my | you |  |  |  |  | nom recollection «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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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