--- title: "You are right," returned the Sultan, "and you will give me fresh li… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: "You are right," returned the Sultan, "and you will give me fresh life if you can by your prayers deliver my daughter from the strange malady that has taken possession of her." Who acts: You, prayers, your. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9, with its d --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/9/80/) [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 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/9/) / 80 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 80 "You are right," returned the Sultan, "and you will give me fresh life if you can by your prayers deliver my daughter from the strange malady that has taken possession of her." **Who acts:** You, prayers, your · **What happens:** be, return, give, deliver, take, pray · **To what, where:** Sultan, fresh life, sire, daughter, strange malady, princess 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, prayers, your), 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:pg128:9:80 # text = "You are right," returned the Sultan, "and you will give me fresh life if you can by your prayers deliver my daughter from the strange malady that has taken possession of her." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 7 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Sultan Sultan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 16 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 iobj _ _ 17 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 if if SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 22 by by SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 23 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 prayers prayer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 deliver deliver VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 26 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 from from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 malady malady NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 32 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl:relcl _ _ 35 possession possession NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | You | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **return** | past | You *not said here* | the Sultan | | | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sultan=Theme | | 3 | **give** *in a quote* | future | you | fresh life | sire | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient life=Theme | | 4 | **deliver** *in a quote* | present | your prayers | my daughter | | the strange malady | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme from malady=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **take** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | | the strange malady | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme possession=Destination | | 6 | **pray** *in a quote* | | your | | | | | | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent | | 7 | **possess** *in a quote* | | | princess | | | | | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient | 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 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/9/79/) - next →: [sentence 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/9/81/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/9/)