--- title: Every tenth day, for five and twenty years, I have received a visit… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: Every tenth day, for five and twenty years, I have received a visit from him, but in case I should need his help at any other time, I have only to touch a talisman that stands at the entrance of my chamber. Who acts: I, talisman, prince. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew La --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/8/79/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/8/) / 79 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 79 Every tenth day, for five and twenty years, I have received a visit from him, but in case I should need his help at any other time, I have only to touch a talisman that stands at the entrance of my chamber. **Who acts:** I, talisman, prince · **What happens:** receive, need, have, touch, stand, help · **To what, where:** visit, help, talisman, entrance This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, talisman, prince), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg128:8:79 # text = Every tenth day, for five and twenty years, I have received a visit from him, but in case I should need his help at any other time, I have only to touch a talisman that stands at the entrance of my chamber. 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 3 det _ _ 2 tenth tenth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 conj _ _ 9 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 received receive VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 visit visit NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 20 in in SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 24 mark _ _ 21 case case NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 fixed _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 need need VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 at at ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 30 det _ _ 29 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 34 only only ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 touch touch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 talisman talisman NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 40 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 acl:relcl _ _ 41 at at ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 entrance entrance NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 chamber chamber NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **receive** | present · perfect | I | a visit | | | day | from prince | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent visit=Theme from he=Source | | 2 | **need** | should | I | prince's help | | | time | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme | | 3 | **have** | present | I | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **touch** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | a talisman | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme talisman=Co-Theme | | 5 | **stand** | present | a talisman | | | the entrance of my chamber | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at entrance=Location | | 6 | **help** | | prince | | | | | | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/8/78/) - next →: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/8/80/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/8/)