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title: Camaralzaman, who had kept silence till then, now asked the captain… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Camaralzaman, who had kept silence till then, now asked the captain (whom he had recognised) the reason for this abduction. Who acts: Camaralzaman, 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 33

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Camaralzaman, who had kept silence till then, now asked the captain (whom he had recognised) the reason for this abduction.

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**Who acts:** Camaralzaman, captain · **What happens:** keep, ask, recognise · **To what, where:** Camaralzaman, captain

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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 (Camaralzaman, 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:pg128:27:33
# text = Camaralzaman, who had kept silence till then, now asked the captain (whom he had recognised) the reason for this abduction.
1	Camaralzaman	Camaralzaman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
6	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	_
7	till	till	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	abduction	abduction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past · perfect · passive |  | Camaralzaman |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Camaralzaman | the captain |  |  | now |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent captain=Recipient |
| 3 | **recognise** | past · perfect | captain | the captain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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