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title: Sire," he cried, "all the former doctors and astrologers were mere q… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Sire," he cried, "all the former doctors and astrologers were mere quacks. Who acts: eunuch, former doctors. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 50

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Sire," he cried, "all the former doctors and astrologers were mere quacks.

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**Who acts:** eunuch, former doctors · **What happens:** cry, be · **To what, where:** mere quacks

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eunuch, former doctors), 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:pg128:25:50
# text = Sire," he cried, "all the former doctors and astrologers were mere quacks.
1	Sire	sire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	astrologers	astrologer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	mere	mere	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	quacks	quack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | eunuch |  |  |  |  | Sire *vocative* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | all former doctors and astrologers | mere quacks |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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