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title: Surely the owners of such charming voices ought not to conceal thems… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Surely the owners of such charming voices ought not to conceal themselves!" Who acts: owners. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 44, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 19

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Surely the owners of such charming voices ought not to conceal themselves!"

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**Who acts:** owners · **What happens:** not conceal · **To what, where:** owners

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 44. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (owners), 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:pg128:44:19
# text = Surely the owners of such charming voices ought not to conceal themselves!"
1	Surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	owners	owner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	charming	charming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	conceal	conceal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **conceal** | ought | the owners of such charming voices | owners *= owner* |  |  |  | surely *property* | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient |

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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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