--- title: The gardener had heard the night before that the ship about which he… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: The gardener had heard the night before that the ship about which he was inquiring would start ere long, but the exact date not being yet known he had been told to return next day for further information. Who acts: gardener, ship. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Ope --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/26/59/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/26/) / 59 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 59 The gardener had heard the night before that the ship about which he was inquiring would start ere long, but the exact date not being yet known he had been told to return next day for further information. **Who acts:** gardener, ship · **What happens:** hear, inquire, start, not know, tell, return · **To what, where:** exact date, gardener · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gardener, ship), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg128:26:59 # text = The gardener had heard the night before that the ship about which he was inquiring would start ere long, but the exact date not being yet known he had been told to return next day for further information. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 gardener gardener NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 7 before before SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 11 about about ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 obl _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 inquiring inquire VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 acl _ _ 16 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 start start VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 18 ere ere ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 exact exact ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 date date NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 26 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 aux:pass _ _ 27 yet yet ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 conj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 return return VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl:unmarked _ _ 37 for for ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 further further ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 information information NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | past · perfect | the gardener | | | | night | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **inquire** *speech: other* | past · progressive | gardener | | | | | about the ship | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about which=Topic | | 3 | **start** | would | the ship | | | | | long *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **not** **know** | gerund · passive | | the exact date | | | yet | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive | | gardener | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **return** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | gardener *not said here* | | | | day | for further information | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/26/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/26/60/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/26/)