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title: When the captain heard these words he cried out in amazement, "Lacka… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: When the captain heard these words he cried out in amazement, "Lackaday! and what is the world coming to? Who acts: captain, Lackaday, world. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 71

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When the captain heard these words he cried out in amazement, "Lackaday! and what is the world coming to?

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**Who acts:** captain, Lackaday, world · **What happens:** hear, cry out, be, come · **To what, where:** words, amazement, world · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (captain, Lackaday, world), 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:pg128:13:71
# text = When the captain heard these words he cried out in amazement, "Lackaday! and what is the world coming to?
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	amazement	amazement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Lackaday	Lackaday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
21	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	acl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | the captain | this words |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | captain | this words *not said here* |  | amazement |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Lackaday and the world | the world |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** *in a quote* | gerund | the world *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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