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title: Remain for a moment with my mother, I beg," she added hastily, "I wi… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Remain for a moment with my mother, I beg," she added hastily, "I will return shortly." Who acts: you, I, spell. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 79

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Remain for a moment with my mother, I beg," she added hastily, "I will return shortly."

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**Who acts:** you, I, spell · **What happens:** remain, beg, add, return · **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 (you, I, spell), 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:pg128:35:79
# text = Remain for a moment with my mother, I beg," she added hastily, "I will return shortly."
1	Remain	remain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	beg	beg	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	hastily	hastily	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
21	shortly	shortly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | moment |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | spell |  |  |  |  | hastily *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **return** | future | I |  |  |  |  | shortly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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