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title: Then sprinkling it over me she said, "If you were born dog, remain d… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Then sprinkling it over me she said, "If you were born dog, remain dog; but if you were born man, by virtue of this water resume your proper form." Who acts: girl, your. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 65

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Then sprinkling it over me she said, "If you were born dog, remain dog; but if you were born man, by virtue of this water resume your proper form."

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**Who acts:** girl, your · **What happens:** sprinkle, say, bear, remain, resume, form · **To what, where:** hand, you, dog, proper form · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, your), 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:pg128:35:65
# text = Then sprinkling it over me she said, "If you were born dog, remain dog; but if you were born man, by virtue of this water resume your proper form."
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	sprinkling	sprinkle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	ccomp	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
14	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	remain	remain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
17	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	advcl	_	_
24	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	virtue	virtue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	resume	resume	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
32	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sprinkle** | gerund |  | hand |  |  | then | over me | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme over i=Destination |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **bear** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **remain** *in a quote* | present |  | dog |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dog=Attribute |
| 5 | **bear** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **resume** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | your proper form |  |  |  | by virtue of this water | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Eventuality |
| 7 | **form** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication 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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