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title: But, Princess, I am persuaded that you will feel with me, that I can… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: But, Princess, I am persuaded that you will feel with me, that I cannot possibly present myself before so great a sovereign without the attendants suitable to my rank. Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 71

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But, Princess, I am persuaded that you will feel with me, that I cannot possibly present myself before so great a sovereign without the attendants suitable to my rank.

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** persuade, feel, not present · **To what, where:** Princess, myself

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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, I), 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:pg128:38:71
# text = But, Princess, I am persuaded that you will feel with me, that I cannot possibly present myself before so great a sovereign without the attendants suitable to my rank.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	persuaded	persuade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	present	present	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
21	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obj	_	_
22	before	before	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
27	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	attendants	attendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	suitable	suitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	advcl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	rank	rank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **persuade** | present · passive |  | Princess |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **feel** | future | you |  |  |  |  | with me | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **present** | can | I | myself |  |  |  | possibly *property* | tree rules |

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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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