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title: There are plenty of Persian merchants, and as for money, my treasury… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: There are plenty of Persian merchants, and as for money, my treasury is always open to you. Who acts: plenty, treasury. 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 74

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There are plenty of Persian merchants, and as for money, my treasury is always open to you.

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**Who acts:** plenty, treasury · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** you

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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 (plenty, treasury), 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:pg128:38:74
# text = There are plenty of Persian merchants, and as for money, my treasury is always open to you.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Persian	persian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	treasury	treasury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	17	advmod	_	_
17	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | plenty of Persian merchants |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | my treasury |  | you |  |  | as money; always, open *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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