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title: "Forsake the kingdom instantly," said the executioner at last, "and… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Forsake the kingdom instantly," said the executioner at last, "and take care never to come back, for you will not only lose your head, but make us lose ours." Who acts: executioner, you, us. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 99

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"Forsake the kingdom instantly," said the executioner at last, "and take care never to come back, for you will not only lose your head, but make us lose ours."

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**Who acts:** executioner, you, us · **What happens:** forsake, say, take, not come back, not lose, make · **To what, where:** kingdom, last, care, head, us, ours · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (executioner, you, us), 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:pg128:7:99
# text = "Forsake the kingdom instantly," said the executioner at last, "and take care never to come back, for you will not only lose your head, but make us lose ours."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Forsake	forsake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	executioner	executioner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
17	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
21	back	back	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
27	only	only	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
29	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
34	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	ours	our	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forsake** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the kingdom |  |  |  | instantly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the executioner |  |  | last |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | the executioner *not said here* | care |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **come back** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the executioner *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **lose** *in a quote* | future | you | your head |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality |
| 6 | **make** *in a quote* | infinitive | the executioner *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **lose** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* | ours |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent our=Eventuality |

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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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