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title: All I can do is to give you bare life; you will have to learn what h… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: All I can do is to give you bare life; you will have to learn what happens to people who interfere with me." Who acts: I, All, you, people. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 103

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All I can do is to give you bare life; you will have to learn what happens to people who interfere with me."

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**Who acts:** I, All, you, people · **What happens:** do, be, have, learn, happen, interfere · **To what, where:** you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, All, you, people), 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:pg128:9:103
# text = All I can do is to give you bare life; you will have to learn what happens to people who interfere with me."
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	nsubj:outer	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	nsubj	_	_
18	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	interfere	interfere	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | can | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | All |  | you |  |  | give *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | future | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **learn** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **happen** | present |  |  |  |  |  | to people | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **interfere** | present | people |  |  |  |  | with me | tree rules |

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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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