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title: If you will grant us this favour, we will, with your permission, do… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: If you will grant us this favour, we will, with your permission, do all in our power to help you spend the time pleasantly." Who acts: you, your. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 74

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If you will grant us this favour, we will, with your permission, do all in our power to help you spend the time pleasantly."

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**Who acts:** you, your · **What happens:** grant, do, help, spend, permit · **To what, where:** favour, us, power, you

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, your), 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:pg128:6:74
# text = If you will grant us this favour, we will, with your permission, do all in our power to help you spend the time pleasantly."
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	grant	grant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
5	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	spend	spend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	pleasantly	pleasantly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grant** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | you | this favour | us |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent we=Goal favour=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | imperative | you *not said here* | our power |  |  |  | with your permission | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Eventuality |
| 3 | **help** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 4 | **spend** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | time | pleasantly *property* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **permit** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom permission «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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