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title: "Loosen the Jewish doctor," said he to the hangman, "and string up t… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Loosen the Jewish doctor," said he to the hangman, "and string up the tailor instead, since he has made confession of his crime. Who acts: death. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 16

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"Loosen the Jewish doctor," said he to the hangman, "and string up the tailor instead, since he has made confession of his crime.

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**Who acts:** death · **What happens:** loosen, say, make, confess, incriminate · **To what, where:** Jewish doctor, hangman, confession, crime · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (death), 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:pg128:20:16
# text = "Loosen the Jewish doctor," said he to the hangman, "and string up the tailor instead, since he has made confession of his crime.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Loosen	loosen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Jewish	Jewish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hangman	hangman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	parataxis	_	_
26	confession	confession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	crime	crime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **loosen** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the Jewish doctor |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent doctor=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | death |  | the hangman and string up the tailor |  |  | instead *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to hangman=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **make** *in a quote* | present · perfect | death | confession of death's crime |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent confession=Product |
| 4 | **confess** *in a quote* |  |  | death's crime |  |  |  |  | nom confession «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **incriminate** *in a quote* |  | death |  |  |  |  |  | nom crime «act transitive»: 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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