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title: In reply the captain told her all he knew of the place where the you… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: In reply the captain told her all he knew of the place where the young man lived, and how, after engaging his passage, he came to be left behind. Who acts: captain, young man. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 23

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In reply the captain told her all he knew of the place where the young man lived, and how, after engaging his passage, he came to be left behind.

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**Who acts:** captain, young man · **What happens:** tell, know, live, engage, come, leave behind · **To what, where:** Badoura, reply, passage · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (captain, young man), 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:pg128:27:23
# text = In reply the captain told her all he knew of the place where the young man lived, and how, after engaging his passage, he came to be left behind.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	engaging	engage	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	advcl	_	_
32	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the captain |  | Badoura | reply |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **know** | past | captain |  |  |  |  | of the place | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of place=Stimulus |
| 3 | **live** | past | the young man |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **engage** | gerund | the captain *not said here* | captain's passage |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passage=Patient |
| 5 | **come** | past | captain |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **leave behind** | to-infinitive · passive | captain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | behind *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V» |
| 7 | **pass** |  | captain |  |  |  |  |  | nom passage «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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