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title: Hagi Hassan, then closing the door upon her, began to offer her for… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Hagi Hassan, then closing the door upon her, began to offer her for sale--calling out: "Who will bid 4,000 gold pieces for the Persian slave?" Who acts: Hagi. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 15

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Hagi Hassan, then closing the door upon her, began to offer her for sale--calling out: "Who will bid 4,000 gold pieces for the Persian slave?"

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**Who acts:** Hagi · **What happens:** close, begin, offer, call out, bid · **To what, where:** door, 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 (Hagi), 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:pg128:29:15
# text = Hagi Hassan, then closing the door upon her, began to offer her for sale--calling out: "Who will bid 4,000 gold pieces for the Persian slave?"
1	Hagi	Hagi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
2	Hassan	Hassan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	closing	close	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	sale	sale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	bid	bid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
25	4,000	4,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
26	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	Persian	persian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close** | gerund | Hagi *not said here* | the door |  |  | then | upon Hagi | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 2 | **begin** | past | Hagi |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **offer** | to-infinitive | Hagi *not said here* | Hagi |  |  |  | for sale *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent she=Theme for sale=Goal |
| 4 | **call out** *speech: ask* | gerund | Hagi *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **bid** *in a quote* | future |  | 4,000 gold pieces |  |  |  | for the Persian slave | tree rules |

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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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