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title: As to your being a slave, of course that is merely a joke, and my re… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: As to your being a slave, of course that is merely a joke, and my reception must itself have assured you that you are as free here as at your father's court. Who acts: that, you, my. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 59

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As to your being a slave, of course that is merely a joke, and my reception must itself have assured you that you are as free here as at your father's court.

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**Who acts:** that, you, my · **What happens:** be, assure, receive · **To what, where:** reception, you, court

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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 (that, you, my), 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:pg128:38:59
# text = As to your being a slave, of course that is merely a joke, and my reception must itself have assured you that you are as free here as at your father's court.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	6	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
4	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
9	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	fixed	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	reception	reception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux	_	_
22	assured	assure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	parataxis	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
30	as	as	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	's	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | as your slave | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | of a joke; merely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **assure** | must · perfect · passive |  | my reception | you |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary you=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | you |  |  | your father's court |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **receive** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom reception «communication 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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