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description: You can come every day to fish in this lake, but be careful not to throw your nets more than once every day, otherwise some harm will happen to you. Who acts: You, harm. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 132

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You can come every day to fish in this lake, but be careful not to throw your nets more than once every day, otherwise some harm will happen to you.

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**Who acts:** You, harm · **What happens:** come, fish, be, not throw, happen · **To what, where:** lake, nets, you

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, harm), 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:pg128:4:132
# text = You can come every day to fish in this lake, but be careful not to throw your nets more than once every day, otherwise some harm will happen to you.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	fish	fish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	throw	throw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	nets	net	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	17	advmod	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	17	advmod	_	_
23	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
27	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
28	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	parataxis	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | can | You |  |  |  | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fish** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  | this lake |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in lake=Location |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  | careful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **throw** | to-infinitive |  | your nets |  |  |  | once *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Theme |
| 5 | **happen** | future | some harm |  | you |  |  | otherwise *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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