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title: The judge, however, would say nothing about this, and lost no time i… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The judge, however, would say nothing about this, and lost no time in sending men to fetch away all that Alnaschar had taken from the house. Who acts: judge. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 80

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The judge, however, would say nothing about this, and lost no time in sending men to fetch away all that Alnaschar had taken from the house.

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**Who acts:** judge · **What happens:** say, lose, send, fetch away, take · **To what, where:** nothing, men, all, house · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (judge), 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:pg128:21:80
# text = The judge, however, would say nothing about this, and lost no time in sending men to fetch away all that Alnaschar had taken from the house.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	judge	judge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	obj	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	sending	send	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
18	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
21	away	away	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	nsubj	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	Alnaschar	Alnaschar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	ccomp	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | would | the judge | nothing |  |  |  | about this; however *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
| 2 | **lose** | past |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **send** | gerund |  | men |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 4 | **fetch away** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **take** | past · perfect · passive |  | all |  | the house |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from house=Initial\_Location |

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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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