--- title: Your messenger has only to follow the road that passes by your house… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: Your messenger has only to follow the road that passes by your house, for twenty days, and at the end of that time, he is to ask the first person he meets for the Talking Bird, the Singing Tree, and the Golden Water." Who acts: messenger, road. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by An --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/41/59/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/41/) / 59 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 59 Your messenger has only to follow the road that passes by your house, for twenty days, and at the end of that time, he is to ask the first person he meets for the Talking Bird, the Singing Tree, and the Golden Water." **Who acts:** messenger, road · **What happens:** have, follow, pass, be, meet · **To what, where:** road, end, first person 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 (messenger, road), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg128:41:59 # text = Your messenger has only to follow the road that passes by your house, for twenty days, and at the end of that time, he is to ask the first person he meets for the Talking Bird, the Singing Tree, and the Golden Water." 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 messenger messenger NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 only only ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 passes pass VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 by by ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 20 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 det _ _ 25 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 33 amod _ _ 33 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 meets meet VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 36 for for ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 Talking Talking PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 Bird Bird PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 Singing Singing PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 Tree Tree PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 Golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 Water Water PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Your messenger | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **follow** | to-infinitive | Your messenger *not said here* | the road | | | | the Golden Water *obl* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme | | 3 | **pass** | present | the road | | | | day | by your house | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by house=Location | | 4 | **is** | present | messenger | | | | at the end of that time | ask *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **meet** | present | messenger | the first person *not said here* | | | | for the Talking Bird and the Singing Tree | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Co-Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/41/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/41/60/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/41/)