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title: The captain of my ship, knowing by experience what this meant, cried… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The captain of my ship, knowing by experience what this meant, cried out to us that the parent birds were coming, and urged us to get on board with all speed. Who acts: captain, parent birds. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 88

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The captain of my ship, knowing by experience what this meant, cried out to us that the parent birds were coming, and urged us to get on board with all speed.

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**Who acts:** captain, parent birds · **What happens:** know, mean, cry out, come, urge, get · **To what, where:** us, board

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (captain, parent birds), 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:pg128:16:88
# text = The captain of my ship, knowing by experience what this meant, cried out to us that the parent birds were coming, and urged us to get on board with all speed.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	experience	experience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	obj	_	_
11	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj	_	_
12	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	urged	urge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
27	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	iobj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	det	_	_
34	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | gerund | the captain of my ship *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by experience | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **mean** | past | the captain of my ship |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 3 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | the captain of my ship *not said here* |  | us |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to we=Recipient |
| 4 | **come** | past · progressive | the parent birds |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **urge** | past | the captain of my ship *not said here* |  | us |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **get** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the captain of my ship *not said here* |  |  | board |  | with all speed | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on board=Source |

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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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