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title: When I came to myself I implored the genius to keep me no longer in… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: When I came to myself I implored the genius to keep me no longer in this state of suspense, but to lose no time in putting an end to my sufferings. Who acts: I, my. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 37

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When I came to myself I implored the genius to keep me no longer in this state of suspense, but to lose no time in putting an end to my sufferings.

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**Who acts:** I, my · **What happens:** come, implore, keep, lose, put, suffer · **To what, where:** myself, genius, me, end

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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, my), 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:pg128:9:37
# text = When I came to myself I implored the genius to keep me no longer in this state of suspense, but to lose no time in putting an end to my sufferings.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obl	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	implored	implore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	genius	genius	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	no	no	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	suspense	suspense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	lose	lose	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
25	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	sufferings	suffering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | I |  | myself |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to myself=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **implore** | past | I | the genius |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent genius=Recipient |
| 3 | **keep** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | me |  |  |  | long *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 4 | **lose** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **put** | gerund | I *not said here* | a end |  |  |  | to my sufferings | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent end=Goal |
| 6 | **suffer** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom suffering «state intransitive»: 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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