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description: Have them unloaded and we will make our bargain at once, and tell the other merchants to let me see all their best wares before showing them to other people." Who acts: you, olives, we, me. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27, with its dependency tree a
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 3

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Have them unloaded and we will make our bargain at once, and tell the other merchants to let me see all their best wares before showing them to other people."

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**Who acts:** you, olives, we, me, our · **What happens:** have, unload, make, tell, let, see · **To what, where:** olives, bargain, other merchants, me, best wares, wares · **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 (you, olives, we, me), 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:pg128:27:3
# text = Have them unloaded and we will make our bargain at once, and tell the other merchants to let me see all their best wares before showing them to other people."
1	Have	have	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	unloaded	unload	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	xcomp	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
8	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	bargain	bargain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	amod	_	_
25	wares	ware	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
26	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	showing	show	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | imperative | you *not said here* | olives *= olive* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **unload** | participle | olives *= olive* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | future | we | our bargain |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bargain=Product |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  | the other merchants |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent merchant=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **let** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **see** | infinitive | me *not said here* | olives's best wares |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ware=Stimulus |
| 7 | **show** | gerund | me *not said here* | wares *= ware* | other people |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Topic to people=Recipient |
| 8 | **bargain** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom bargain «communication 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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