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title: I am sure you will understand my position, and will feel that to rem… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I am sure you will understand my position, and will feel that to remain away one instant longer than is necessary would not only be ungrateful on my part, but perhaps even a crime, for how do I know if my absence may not break his heart? Who acts: I, you, absence, my. A sentence of «The Arabian Nigh
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 82

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I am sure you will understand my position, and will feel that to remain away one instant longer than is necessary would not only be ungrateful on my part, but perhaps even a crime, for how do I know if my absence may not break his heart?

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**Who acts:** I, you, absence, my · **What happens:** be, understand, feel, remain away, not be, know · **To what, where:** position, part, heart

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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 (I, you, absence, 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:pg128:38:82
# text = I am sure you will understand my position, and will feel that to remain away one instant longer than is necessary would not only be ungrateful on my part, but perhaps even a crime, for how do I know if my absence may not break his heart?
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	feel	feel	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
16	away	away	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	instant	instant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	parataxis	_	_
19	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
20	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
25	only	only	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
27	ungrateful	ungrateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
34	even	even	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	crime	crime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
39	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	42	advmod	_	_
40	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	_
43	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
44	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	absence	absence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
46	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
47	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	48	advmod	_	_
48	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	advcl	_	_
49	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **understand** | future | you | my position |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer position=Stimulus |
| 3 | **feel** | future |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **remain away** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | would · present |  |  |  |  |  | long, necessary *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **is** | infinitive |  |  |  | my part |  | ungrateful *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **know** | present · do-support | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **not** **break** *a condition, not said to happen* | may | my absence | father's heart |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heart=Patient |
| 9 | **absent** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom absence «state 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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