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title: Then have this bottle ready, and dash the water it contains over her… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Then have this bottle ready, and dash the water it contains over her, saying boldly, "Receive the reward of your crimes." Who acts: you, water, your. 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 90

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Then have this bottle ready, and dash the water it contains over her, saying boldly, "Receive the reward of your crimes."

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**Who acts:** you, water, your · **What happens:** have, dash, contain, say, receive, reward · **To what, where:** bottle, water, reward, crimes · **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, water, 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:pg128:35:90
# text = Then have this bottle ready, and dash the water it contains over her, saying boldly, "Receive the reward of your crimes."
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	dash	dash	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
17	boldly	boldly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	crimes	crime	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | imperative | you *not said here* | this bottle |  |  | then | ready *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Patient |
| 2 | **dash** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the water |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
| 3 | **contain** | present | water | the water *not said here* |  |  |  | over daughter | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot water=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | boldly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **receive** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | the reward of your crimes |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Theme |
| 6 | **reward** *in a quote* |  |  | your crimes |  |  |  |  | nom reward «event transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **incriminate** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom crime «act 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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