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title: The captain had no choice but to do as he was bid, so hastily provis… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The captain had no choice but to do as he was bid, so hastily provisioning his ship he started that same evening on his return voyage. Who acts: captain. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 28

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The captain had no choice but to do as he was bid, so hastily provisioning his ship he started that same evening on his return voyage.

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**Who acts:** captain · **What happens:** have, do, bid, provision, start, voyage · **To what, where:** choice, captain, ship, return voyage

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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), 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:pg128:27:28
# text = The captain had no choice but to do as he was bid, so hastily provisioning his ship he started that same evening on his return voyage.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	bid	bid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	hastily	hastily	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	provisioning	provision	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
21	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
22	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	return	return	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the captain | no choice |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | the captain *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bid** | past · passive |  | captain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **provision** | gerund | the captain *not said here* | captain's ship |  |  |  | hastily *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **start** | past | captain |  |  | captain's return voyage | evening |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **voyage** |  | captain |  |  |  |  |  | nom voyage «act transitive»: 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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