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description: Grant my prayer, and pardon my crime, as the best man in the whole world forgave his neighbour who was eaten up with envy of him." Who acts: you, best man, my. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 43

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Grant my prayer, and pardon my crime, as the best man in the whole world forgave his neighbour who was eaten up with envy of him."

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**Who acts:** you, best man, my · **What happens:** grant, pardon, forgive, eat up, pray, incriminate · **To what, where:** prayer, crime, neighbour, man

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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 (you, best man, 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:pg128:9:43
# text = Grant my prayer, and pardon my crime, as the best man in the whole world forgave his neighbour who was eaten up with envy of him."
1	Grant	grant	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	pardon	pardon	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	crime	crime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	forgave	forgive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	envy	envy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grant** | imperative | you *not said here* | my prayer |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent prayer=Theme |
| 2 | **pardon** | infinitive |  | my crime |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crime=Theme |
| 3 | **forgive** | past | the best man in the whole world | man's neighbour |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neighbour=Theme |
| 4 | **eat up** | past · passive |  | man's neighbour |  |  |  | with envy of man | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **pray** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **incriminate** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom crime «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **envy** |  |  | man |  |  |  |  | nom envy «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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