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title: Our fortune is large enough for all our needs, therefore, dear Amina… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Our fortune is large enough for all our needs, therefore, dear Amina, do not seek to check yourself, but eat as much as you desire, as I do!" Who acts: fortune, you, I, our. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 76

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Our fortune is large enough for all our needs, therefore, dear Amina, do not seek to check yourself, but eat as much as you desire, as I do!"

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**Who acts:** fortune, you, I, our · **What happens:** be, not seek, check, eat, desire, do · **To what, where:** yourself, much

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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 (fortune, you, I, our), 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:pg128:34:76
# text = Our fortune is large enough for all our needs, therefore, dear Amina, do not seek to check yourself, but eat as much as you desire, as I do!"
1	Our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	needs	need	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Amina	Amina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
25	as	as	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	obj	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	desire	desire	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Our fortune |  |  |  |  | for our needs; dear Amina *obl*; enough, large *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **seek** | infinitive · do-support | Our fortune *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **check** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Our fortune *not said here* | yourself |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme |
| 4 | **eat** | present |  | much |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient |
| 5 | **desire** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 6 | **do** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **need** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom need «state transitive»: poss=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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