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title: So counsel me, I pray, whom to send on the undertaking." — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: So counsel me, I pray, whom to send on the undertaking." Who acts: you, I. 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 74

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So counsel me, I pray, whom to send on the undertaking."

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** counsel, pray, send · **To what, where:** me, undertaking

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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, I), 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:pg128:41:74
# text = So counsel me, I pray, whom to send on the undertaking."
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	counsel	counsel	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	send	send	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	undertaking	undertaking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **counsel** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 2 | **pray** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **send** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  | the undertaking |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=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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