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title: This will deliver her so completely that Maimoum, the son of Dimdim,… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: This will deliver her so completely that Maimoum, the son of Dimdim, will never dare to approach her again." Who acts: This. 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 71

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This will deliver her so completely that Maimoum, the son of Dimdim, will never dare to approach her again."

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** deliver, not dare, not approach · **To what, where:** princess

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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 (This), 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:pg128:9:71
# text = This will deliver her so completely that Maimoum, the son of Dimdim, will never dare to approach her again."
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
8	Maimoum	Maimoum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Dimdim	Dimdim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	dare	dare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	approach	approach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	again	again	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deliver** | future | This | princess |  |  |  | completely *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **dare** | future | This *not said here* |  |  |  |  | Maimoum *vocative* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **approach** | to-infinitive | This *not said here* | princess |  |  | again |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |

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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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