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title: My children," he added, "let me embrace you, and embrace each other,… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: My children," he added, "let me embrace you, and embrace each other, not only as brothers and sister, but as having in you the blood royal of Persia which could flow in no nobler veins." Who acts: heart, me. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 44, with its
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 55

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My children," he added, "let me embrace you, and embrace each other, not only as brothers and sister, but as having in you the blood royal of Persia which could flow in no nobler veins."

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**Who acts:** heart, me · **What happens:** add, let, embrace, have, flow · **To what, where:** children, me, you, each, blood royal, nobler veins · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (heart, me), 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:pg128:44:55
# text = My children," he added, "let me embrace you, and embrace each other, not only as brothers and sister, but as having in you the blood royal of Persia which could flow in no nobler veins."
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	embrace	embrace	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	embrace	embrace	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	15	obj	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
20	only	only	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	advcl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	royal	royal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Persia	Persia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obj	_	_
37	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	flow	flow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	42	det	_	_
41	nobler	noble	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	42	amod	_	_
42	veins	vein	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | heart | My children |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **embrace** | infinitive | me *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **embrace** | infinitive |  | each |  |  |  | as brothers and sister | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **have** | gerund |  | the blood royal of Persia |  |  |  | in you | tree rules |
| 6 | **flow** | could |  |  |  | no nobler veins |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in vein=Location |

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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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