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title: As soon as they saw her they agreed that less than 4,000 gold pieces… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as they saw her they agreed that less than 4,000 gold pieces could not be asked. Who acts: merchants. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 14

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As soon as they saw her they agreed that less than 4,000 gold pieces could not be asked.

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**Who acts:** merchants · **What happens:** see, agree, not ask · **To what, where:** Hagi, 4,000 gold pieces · **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 (merchants), 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:pg128:29:14
# text = As soon as they saw her they agreed that less than 4,000 gold pieces could not be asked.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
10	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	12	advmod	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	4,000	4,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | merchants *= merchant* | Hagi |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | merchants *= merchant* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **ask** *speech: ask* | could · passive |  | 4,000 gold pieces |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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