--- title: "What," replied he, "do you live in Bagdad, and not know that here l… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: "What," replied he, "do you live in Bagdad, and not know that here lives the noble Sindbad the Sailor, that famous traveller who sailed over every sea upon which the sun shines?" Who acts: feasting, you, famous traveller, sun. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/13/10/) [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 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/13/) / 10 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 10 "What," replied he, "do you live in Bagdad, and not know that here lives the noble Sindbad the Sailor, that famous traveller who sailed over every sea upon which the sun shines?" **Who acts:** feasting, you, famous traveller, sun · **What happens:** reply, live, not know, sail over, shine · **To what, where:** Bagdad, noble Sindbad, sea · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feasting, you, famous traveller, sun), 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:pg128:13:10 # text = "What," replied he, "do you live in Bagdad, and not know that here lives the noble Sindbad the Sailor, that famous traveller who sailed over every sea upon which the sun shines?" 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Bagdad Bagdad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 know know VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 that that SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 20 advmod _ _ 20 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 ccomp _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 noble noble ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 Sindbad Sindbad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 Sailor Sailor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 traveller traveller NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 30 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 31 sailed sail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 32 over over ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 34 det _ _ 34 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 35 upon upon ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 39 obl _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 shines shine VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ? ? PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reply** *speech: ask* | past | feasting | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | | 2 | **live** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | | | Bagdad | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bagdad=Location | | 3 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **live** *in a quote* | present | | the noble Sindbad | | here | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **sail over** *in a quote* | past | famous traveller | every sea | | | | over *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Theme | | 6 | **shine** *in a quote* | present | the sun | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon which=Location | 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 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/13/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/13/11/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/13/)