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title: But if I grant her life it shall only be on one condition, which sha… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: But if I grant her life it shall only be on one condition, which shall make her daily pray for death. Who acts: I, life, one condition. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 16

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But if I grant her life it shall only be on one condition, which shall make her daily pray for death.

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**Who acts:** I, life, one condition · **What happens:** grant, be, make, pray · **To what, where:** passion, one condition

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, life, one condition), 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:pg128:41:16
# text = But if I grant her life it shall only be on one condition, which shall make her daily pray for death.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	grant	grant	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
8	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	daily	daily	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grant** | present | I | passion |  |  |  | life *obl:unmarked* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | shall | life |  |  | one condition |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | shall | one condition | passion |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product |
| 4 | **pray** | present | one condition *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for death; daily *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for death=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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