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title: "It is well," he answered, "the monsoon will soon bring the ivory sh… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "It is well," he answered, "the monsoon will soon bring the ivory ships hither, then I will send you on your way with somewhat to pay your passage." Who acts: liberty, he, monsoon, I. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and the
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 3

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"It is well," he answered, "the monsoon will soon bring the ivory ships hither, then I will send you on your way with somewhat to pay your passage."

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**Who acts:** liberty, he, monsoon, I, your · **What happens:** be, answer, bring, send, pay, pass · **To what, where:** ivory ships, you, way, passage · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (liberty, he, monsoon, 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:pg128:19:3
# text = "It is well," he answered, "the monsoon will soon bring the ivory ships hither, then I will send you on your way with somewhat to pay your passage."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	monsoon	monsoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
15	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	ivory	ivory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	iobj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
33	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *in a quote* | present | liberty |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring** *in a quote* | future | the monsoon | the ivory ships |  |  |  | hither, soon *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent ship=Theme |
| 4 | **send** *in a quote* | future | I |  | you | your way | then |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 5 | **pay** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | your passage |  |  |  | somewhat *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passage=Asset |
| 6 | **pass** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom passage «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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