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title: On learning that Aladdin was idle and would learn no trade, he offer… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: On learning that Aladdin was idle and would learn no trade, he offered to take a shop for him and stock it with merchandise. Who acts: bade, Aladdin. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 104

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On learning that Aladdin was idle and would learn no trade, he offered to take a shop for him and stock it with merchandise.

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**Who acts:** bade, Aladdin · **What happens:** learn, be, offer, take, stock · **To what, where:** trade, shop · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bade, Aladdin), 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:pg128:30:104
# text = On learning that Aladdin was idle and would learn no trade, he offered to take a shop for him and stock it with merchandise.
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	learning	learn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	idle	idle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	stock	stock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	merchandise	merchandise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | gerund | bade *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | Aladdin |  |  |  |  | idle *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **learn** | would | Aladdin *not said here* | no trade |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trade=Topic |
| 4 | **offer** | past | bade |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | bade *not said here* | a shop |  |  |  | for bade | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent shop=Theme for he=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **stock** | infinitive | bade *not said here* | trade |  |  |  | with merchandise | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with merchandise=Theme |

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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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