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title: Camaralzaman took the talisman and, holding it to the light, cried w… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Camaralzaman took the talisman and, holding it to the light, cried with surprise, "Sire, you ask me the use of this talisman. Who acts: Camaralzaman, you. 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 62

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Camaralzaman took the talisman and, holding it to the light, cried with surprise, "Sire, you ask me the use of this talisman.

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**Who acts:** Camaralzaman, you · **What happens:** take, hold, cry, ask, use · **To what, where:** talisman, light, use, princess · **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 (Camaralzaman, you), 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:pg128:27:62
# text = Camaralzaman took the talisman and, holding it to the light, cried with surprise, "Sire, you ask me the use of this talisman.
1	Camaralzaman	Camaralzaman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	talisman	talisman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	cried	cry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Sire	sire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	talisman	talisman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Camaralzaman | the talisman |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent talisman=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **hold** | gerund | Camaralzaman *not said here* | talisman |  |  |  | to the light and Sire | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | participle |  | the light and Sire *not said here* |  |  |  | with surprise | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with surprise=Theme |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | present | you | the use of this talisman | princess |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **use** *in a quote* |  |  | this talisman |  |  |  |  | nom use «act transitive»: of=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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