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title: Let me say what a debt I owe to the chance that has led you to my ho… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Let me say what a debt I owe to the chance that has led you to my house; you could have entered none which would have given you a warmer welcome. Who acts: you, me, I, chance. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 58

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Let me say what a debt I owe to the chance that has led you to my house; you could have entered none which would have given you a warmer welcome.

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**Who acts:** you, me, I, chance · **What happens:** let, say, owe, lead, enter, give · **To what, where:** me, debt, chance, you, house, none · **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 (you, me, I, chance), 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:pg128:38:58
# text = Let me say what a debt I owe to the chance that has led you to my house; you could have entered none which would have given you a warmer welcome.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	6	det	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	debt	debt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	owe	owe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux	_	_
23	entered	enter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	parataxis	_	_
24	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	23	obj	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux	_	_
28	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl:relcl	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	iobj	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	warmer	warm	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	32	amod	_	_
32	welcome	welcome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | me *not said here* | what debt |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent debt=Topic |
| 3 | **owe** | present | I | what debt *not said here* |  |  |  | to the chance *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent debt=Theme to chance=Goal |
| 4 | **lead** | present · perfect | the chance | you |  | my house |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to house=Destination |
| 5 | **enter** | could · perfect | you | none |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme none=Destination |
| 6 | **give** | would · perfect |  | a warmer welcome | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient welcome=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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