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title: Khacan, not wishing to bargain, immediately had the sum counted out,… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Khacan, not wishing to bargain, immediately had the sum counted out, and given to the merchant, who before withdrawing said: Who acts: Khacan. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 8

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Khacan, not wishing to bargain, immediately had the sum counted out, and given to the merchant, who before withdrawing said:

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**Who acts:** Khacan · **What happens:** not wish, bargain, have, count out, give, withdraw · **To what, where:** sum, merchant · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Khacan), 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:pg128:28:8
# text = Khacan, not wishing to bargain, immediately had the sum counted out, and given to the merchant, who before withdrawing said:
1	Khacan	Khacan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	wishing	wish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	bargain	bargain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	counted	count	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
22	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	withdrawing	withdraw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **wish** | gerund | Khacan |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **bargain** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Khacan *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | past |  | the sum |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Patient |
| 4 | **count out** | participle |  | the sum *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **give** | participle |  |  | the merchant |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to merchant=Recipient |
| 6 | **withdraw** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | participle · passive |  | the merchant |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |

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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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