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title: Like myself, you have always thought this house that our father buil… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Like myself, you have always thought this house that our father built for us was perfect in every respect, but only to-day I have learned that three things are still lacking to complete it. Who acts: you, house, I, three things. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Openi
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 70

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Like myself, you have always thought this house that our father built for us was perfect in every respect, but only to-day I have learned that three things are still lacking to complete it.

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**Who acts:** you, house, I, three things · **What happens:** think, build, be, learn, lack, complete · **To what, where:** house, father, respect

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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 (you, house, I, three things), 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:pg128:41:70
# text = Like myself, you have always thought this house that our father built for us was perfect in every respect, but only to-day I have learned that three things are still lacking to complete it.
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	_
7	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
11	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
13	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	acl:relcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
23	only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
31	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
33	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	still	still	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	lacking	lack	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	complete	complete	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present · perfect | you | this house |  |  |  | like myself; always *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot house=Theme |
| 2 | **build** | participle |  | our father *not said here* |  |  |  | for us | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for we=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **is** | past | this house |  |  | every respect |  | perfect *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **learn** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  | day |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **lack** | present · progressive | three things |  |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **complete** | to-infinitive | three things *not said here* | house |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

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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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