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title: In silence they all went down and called to the youth by name; then… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: In silence they all went down and called to the youth by name; then for a moment I heard no more. Who acts: ships, I. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 89

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In silence they all went down and called to the youth by name; then for a moment I heard no more.

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**Who acts:** ships, I · **What happens:** go down, call, hear · **To what, where:** youth, more · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ships, I), 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:pg128:11:89
# text = In silence they all went down and called to the youth by name; then for a moment I heard no more.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go down** | past | ships *= ship* |  |  |  |  | in silence; down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in silence=Attribute |
| 2 | **call** | participle | ships *= ship* *not said here* |  | the youth |  |  | by name | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to youth=Recipient |
| 3 | **hear** | past | I | no more |  |  | then; moment |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus |

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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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