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title: For ourselves, we think you would be fortunate if the king your fath… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: For ourselves, we think you would be fortunate if the king your father should allow you to marry anyone so amiable. Who acts: we, you, king. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 24

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For ourselves, we think you would be fortunate if the king your father should allow you to marry anyone so amiable.

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**Who acts:** we, you, king · **What happens:** think, be, allow, marry · **To what, where:** you, anyone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, you, king), 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:pg128:38:24
# text = For ourselves, we think you would be fortunate if the king your father should allow you to marry anyone so amiable.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
20	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	19	obj	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	amiable	amiable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | we |  |  |  |  | for ourselves | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | would | you |  |  |  |  | fortunate *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **allow** *a condition, not said to happen* | should | the king |  | you |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer you=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **marry** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* | anyone |  |  |  | amiable *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient |

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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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