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title: I admit that the treatment of my horse is calculated to give your Hi… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I admit that the treatment of my horse is calculated to give your Highness a bad opinion of me, and to set an evil example to others; yet I have not chastised it without reason, and I have hopes that I shall be judged more worthy of pity than punishment." Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Arabian Nigh
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 60

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I admit that the treatment of my horse is calculated to give your Highness a bad opinion of me, and to set an evil example to others; yet I have not chastised it without reason, and I have hopes that I shall be judged more worthy of pity than punishment."

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** admit, calculate, give, set, not chastise, have · **To what, where:** treatment, Highness, evil example, hopes, horse, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (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:pg128:34:60
# text = I admit that the treatment of my horse is calculated to give your Highness a bad opinion of me, and to set an evil example to others; yet I have not chastised it without reason, and I have hopes that I shall be judged more worthy of pity than punishment."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	admit	admit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	calculated	calculate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	Highness	highness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	chastised	chastise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	without	without	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
42	hopes	hope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obj	_	_
43	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj:pass	_	_
44	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj:pass	_	_
45	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
46	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	aux:pass	_	_
47	judged	judge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	acl:relcl	_	_
48	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	49	amod	_	_
49	worthy	worthy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	_
52	than	than	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **admit** *speech: other* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **calculate** | present · passive |  | the treatment of my horse |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | to-infinitive |  | your Highness |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent highness=Recipient opinion=Theme |
| 4 | **set** | to-infinitive |  | a evil example |  |  |  | to others | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient example=Result |
| 5 | **not** **chastise** | present · perfect | I | Highness |  |  |  | without reason | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 6 | **have** | present | I | hopes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Patient |
| 7 | **judge** | shall · passive |  | hopes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **treat** |  |  | my horse |  |  |  |  | nom treatment «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 9 | **opine** |  |  | me |  |  |  |  | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: 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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