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title: Give it up, I implore you, for I would a thousand times rather lose… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Give it up, I implore you, for I would a thousand times rather lose the Talking Bird, and the Singing Tree and the Golden Water, than that you should run into danger." Who acts: you, I, thousand times. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41, with its depen
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 81

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Give it up, I implore you, for I would a thousand times rather lose the Talking Bird, and the Singing Tree and the Golden Water, than that you should run into danger."

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**Who acts:** you, I, thousand times · **What happens:** give up, implore, lose, run · **To what, where:** accident, you, Talking Bird, danger

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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, thousand times), 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:pg128:41:81
# text = Give it up, I implore you, for I would a thousand times rather lose the Talking Bird, and the Singing Tree and the Golden Water, than that you should run into danger."
1	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	implore	implore	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	lose	lose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Talking	Talking	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Bird	Bird	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Singing	Singing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
35	into	into	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give up** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | accident |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source |
| 2 | **implore** | present | I |  | you |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 3 | **lose** | would | a thousand times | the Talking Bird |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Eventuality |
| 4 | **run** | should | you |  |  |  |  | into danger *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into danger=Result |

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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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