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title: The sailors did as he asked, and the captain before leaving charged… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The sailors did as he asked, and the captain before leaving charged Camaralzaman to lose no time, as the wind was fair, and he wished to set sail at once. Who acts: sailors, gardener, wind. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree a
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 86

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The sailors did as he asked, and the captain before leaving charged Camaralzaman to lose no time, as the wind was fair, and he wished to set sail at once.

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**Who acts:** sailors, gardener, wind · **What happens:** do, ask, charge, lose, be, wish · **To what, where:** captain, Camaralzaman, sail

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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 (sailors, gardener, wind), 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:pg128:26:86
# text = The sailors did as he asked, and the captain before leaving charged Camaralzaman to lose no time, as the wind was fair, and he wished to set sail at once.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
11	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	charged	charge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
14	Camaralzaman	Camaralzaman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	iobj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	sail	sail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | the sailors |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | gardener |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **charge** | gerund · passive |  | the captain *not said here* | Camaralzaman |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **lose** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past | the wind |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **wish** | past | gardener |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 7 | **set** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | gardener *not said here* | sail |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sail=Theme at once=Destination |

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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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