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title: At daybreak the ship's captain and some of his sailors knocked at th… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: At daybreak the ship's captain and some of his sailors knocked at the garden door and asked for the passenger who was to embark. Who acts: some, passenger. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 83

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At daybreak the ship's captain and some of his sailors knocked at the garden door and asked for the passenger who was to embark.

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**Who acts:** some, passenger · **What happens:** knock, ask, be

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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 (some, passenger), 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:pg128:26:83
# text = At daybreak the ship's captain and some of his sailors knocked at the garden door and asked for the passenger who was to embark.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	daybreak	daybreak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	knocked	knock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	passenger	passenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	embark	embark	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knock** | past | some |  |  |  |  | at the garden door; at daybreak | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at daybreak=Patient |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | some *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the passenger | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | the passenger |  |  |  |  | embark *property* | 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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