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title: I implore you not to punish me for what was not my fault, and not to… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I implore you not to punish me for what was not my fault, and not to visit on me any misfortune that may occur." Who acts: I, misfortune. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 77

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I implore you not to punish me for what was not my fault, and not to visit on me any misfortune that may occur."

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**Who acts:** I, misfortune · **What happens:** implore, not punish, not be, not visit, occur · **To what, where:** you, me, misfortune

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, misfortune), 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:pg128:37:77
# text = I implore you not to punish me for what was not my fault, and not to visit on me any misfortune that may occur."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	implore	implore	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	punish	punish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	visit	visit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	occur	occur	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	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 | **implore** | present | I |  | you |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 2 | **not** **punish** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | for my fault | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **visit** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | any misfortune |  |  |  | on me | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent misfortune=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **occur** | may | any misfortune |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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