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title: Taking them into a room apart, Hagi Hassan exclaimed as soon as she… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Taking them into a room apart, Hagi Hassan exclaimed as soon as she had unveiled, "My lord, is not this the slave your father bought for 10,000 pieces?" Who acts: Hagi, lord. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 11

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Taking them into a room apart, Hagi Hassan exclaimed as soon as she had unveiled, "My lord, is not this the slave your father bought for 10,000 pieces?"

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**Who acts:** Hagi, lord · **What happens:** take, exclaim, unveil, not be, buy · **To what, where:** words, room, Hagi, slave, father · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hagi, lord), 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:pg128:29:11
# text = Taking them into a room apart, Hagi Hassan exclaimed as soon as she had unveiled, "My lord, is not this the slave your father bought for 10,000 pieces?"
1	Taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	Hagi	Hagi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	Hassan	Hassan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	unveiled	unveil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	_
27	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	bought	buy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	10,000	10000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | gerund | Hagi *not said here* | words *= word* |  | a room |  | apart *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into room=Destination |
| 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | Hagi |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **unveil** | past · perfect · passive |  | Hagi |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | My lord | this slave and your father |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **buy** *in a quote* | participle |  | your father *not said here* |  |  |  | for 10,000 pieces | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for piece=Beneficiary |

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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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