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title: No more was said, and I took the pen and wrote the six sorts of writ… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: No more was said, and I took the pen and wrote the six sorts of writing in use among the Arabs, and each sort contained an original verse or couplet, in praise of the Sultan. Who acts: I, sort. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tr
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 21

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No more was said, and I took the pen and wrote the six sorts of writing in use among the Arabs, and each sort contained an original verse or couplet, in praise of the Sultan.

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**Who acts:** I, sort · **What happens:** not say, take, write, contain, sort, praise · **To what, where:** more, pen, six sorts, use, original verse, praise · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sort), 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:pg128:10:21
# text = No more was said, and I took the pen and wrote the six sorts of writing in use among the Arabs, and each sort contained an original verse or couplet, in praise of the Sultan.
1	No	no	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pen	pen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	among	among	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Arabs	Arab	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	contained	contain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	verse	verse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	couplet	couplet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	praise	praise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | more |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | past | I | the pen |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pen=Theme |
| 3 | **write** | past | I *not said here* | the six sorts of writing |  | use |  | among the Arabs | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sort=Theme in use=Destination |
| 4 | **contain** | past | each sort | a original verse or couplet |  | praise of the Sultan |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent verse=Value in praise=Location |
| 5 | **sort** |  |  | writing |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **praise** |  |  | the Sultan |  |  |  |  | nom praise «communication 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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