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title: "Sire," replied the captain, "I have on board fifty very large pots… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Sire," replied the captain, "I have on board fifty very large pots of olives. Who acts: Sire. 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 4

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"Sire," replied the captain, "I have on board fifty very large pots of olives.

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**Who acts:** Sire · **What happens:** reply, have · **To what, where:** captain, large pots, board · **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 (Sire), 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:pg128:27:4
# text = "Sire," replied the captain, "I have on board fifty very large pots of olives.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Sire	sire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	flat	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	olives	olive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Sire | the captain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Sire | large pots of olives |  | board |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Patient |

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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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