--- title: The captain answered all her questions, and said that his passengers… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: The captain answered all her questions, and said that his passengers consisted entirely of traders who brought rich stuffs from various countries, fine muslins, precious stones, musk, amber, spices, drugs, olives, and many other things. Who acts: captain, passengers, traders, rest. A sentence of «Th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/26/99/) [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/) / 99 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 99 The captain answered all her questions, and said that his passengers consisted entirely of traders who brought rich stuffs from various countries, fine muslins, precious stones, musk, amber, spices, drugs, olives, and many other things. **Who acts:** captain, passengers, traders, rest · **What happens:** answer, say, consist, bring, question · **To what, where:** questions, many other things, rich stuffs, various countries · **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 (captain, passengers, traders, rest), 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:pg128:26:99 # text = The captain answered all her questions, and said that his passengers consisted entirely of traders who brought rich stuffs from various countries, fine muslins, precious stones, musk, amber, spices, drugs, olives, and many other things. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 captain captain NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 all all ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 passengers passenger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 consisted consist VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 14 entirely entirely ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 traders trader NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 17 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 stuffs stuff NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 various various ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 muslins muslin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 precious precious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 musk musk NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 amber amber NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 spices spice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 drugs drug NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 olives olive NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 42 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 43 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the captain | rest's questions | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the captain *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **consist** | past | captain's passengers | many other things | | | | of traders; entirely *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **bring** | past | traders | rich stuffs | | various countries and fine muslins and precious stones and musk and amber and spices and drugs and olives | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme from country=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **question** | | rest | | | | | | nom question «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/26/98/) - next →: [Opening, part 27, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/27/1/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/26/)