--- title: Next she ordered another officer to remove the seals from the wareho… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: Next she ordered another officer to remove the seals from the warehouse, whilst she presented the captain with a costly diamond, and told him to keep the thousand pieces of gold paid for the olives, as she would arrange matters with the merchant himself. Who acts: Badoura, officer. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Badoura, officer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg128:27:43 # text = Next she ordered another officer to remove the seals from the warehouse, whilst she presented the captain with a costly diamond, and told him to keep the thousand pieces of gold paid for the olives, as she would arrange matters with the merchant himself. 1 Next next ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 ordered order VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 5 det _ _ 5 officer officer NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 remove remove VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 seals seal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 warehouse warehouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 whilst whilst SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 presented present VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 captain captain NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 costly costly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 diamond diamond NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 iobj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 34 paid pay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl _ _ 35 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 olives olive NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 as as SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 40 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 41 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 42 arrange arrange VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 43 matters matter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obj _ _ 44 with with ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 merchant merchant NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 47 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 46 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **order** | past | Badoura | another officer | | | | next *property* | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent officer=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **remove** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | another officer *not said here* | the seals | | the warehouse | | | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent seal=Theme from warehouse=Source | | 3 | **present** | past | Badoura | the captain | | | | with a costly diamond | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent captain=Recipient with diamond=Theme | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Badoura *not said here* | | captain | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Badoura *not said here* | the thousand pieces of gold | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | | 6 | **pay** | participle | | the thousand pieces of gold *not said here* | | | | for the olives | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for olive=Theme | | 7 | **arrange** | would | Badoura | matters | | | | with the merchant captain | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent matter=Patient with merchant=Instrument | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/27/42/) - next →: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/27/44/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/27/)