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title: Then a voice came from the vase which said to the fisherman, "Well,… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Then a voice came from the vase which said to the fisherman, "Well, unbelieving fisherman, here I am in the vase; do you believe me now?" Who acts: voice, vase, fisherman. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 116

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Then a voice came from the vase which said to the fisherman, "Well, unbelieving fisherman, here I am in the vase; do you believe me now?"

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**Who acts:** voice, vase, fisherman · **What happens:** come, say, unbeliev, be, believe · **To what, where:** vase, fisherman · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice, vase, fisherman), 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:pg128:3:116
# text = Then a voice came from the vase which said to the fisherman, "Well, unbelieving fisherman, here I am in the vase; do you believe me now?"
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	vase	vase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	unbelieving	unbeliev	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
18	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	vase	vase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
27	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
30	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	iobj	_	_
31	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | a voice |  |  | the vase | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the vase |  | the fisherman |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to fisherman=Recipient |
| 3 | **unbeliev** *in a quote* | gerund | a voice *not said here* | fisherman |  | here |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the vase *= vase* |  |  | the vase |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **believe** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the fisherman *= fisherman* |  | the vase *= vase* |  | now |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |

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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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