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title: What I have here said, may serve as a moral to an Arabian fable, whi… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: What I have here said, may serve as a moral to an Arabian fable, which I find translated into French by Monsieur Galland. Who acts: I, Arabian fable. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Alnaschar., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Alnaschar., sentence 6

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What I have here said, may serve as a moral to an Arabian fable, which I find translated into French by Monsieur Galland.

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**Who acts:** I, Arabian fable · **What happens:** say, serve, find, translate · **To what, where:** Arabian fable, French · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Alnaschar.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Arabian fable), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62868:16:6
# text = What I have here said, may serve as a moral to an Arabian fable, which I find translated into French by Monsieur Galland.
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	serve	serve	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	moral	moral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	fable	fable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obj	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	translated	translate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	xcomp	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Monsieur	Monsieur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl:agent	_	_
25	Galland	Galland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · perfect | I |  |  | here |  | What *obj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 2 | **serve** | may |  |  |  |  |  | as a moral; to a Arabian fable | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as moral=Attribute |
| 3 | **find** | present | I | a Arabian fable |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent which=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 4 | **translate** | participle | a Arabian fable *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into French *result*; Monsieur *obl:agent* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into french=Result |

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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:** «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (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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