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title: Perhaps you may have taken a loan of them for your business purposes… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Perhaps you may have taken a loan of them for your business purposes; if that is so you are most welcome. Who acts: you, that, your. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 58

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Perhaps you may have taken a loan of them for your business purposes; if that is so you are most welcome.

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**Who acts:** you, that, your · **What happens:** take, be, loan, purpose · **To what, where:** loan, friends

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, that, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg128:3060`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg128:36:58
# text = Perhaps you may have taken a loan of them for your business purposes; if that is so you are most welcome.
1	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	loan	loan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	purposes	purpose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advcl	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	22	advmod	_	_
22	welcome	welcome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | may · perfect | you | a loan of friends |  |  |  | for your business purposes; perhaps *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent loan=Theme for purpose=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | that |  |  |  |  | so *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | welcome *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **loan** |  |  | friends *= friend* |  |  |  |  | nom loan «possession transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **purpose** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: 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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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