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title: Ali Cogia made a low bow, and pleaded his cause point by point; conc… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Ali Cogia made a low bow, and pleaded his cause point by point; concluding by imploring the Cadi not to inflict on him such a heavy loss. Who acts: Ali. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 106

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Ali Cogia made a low bow, and pleaded his cause point by point; concluding by imploring the Cadi not to inflict on him such a heavy loss.

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**Who acts:** Ali · **What happens:** make, plead, conclude, implore, not inflict, point · **To what, where:** low bow, cause point, Cadi, heavy loss

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ali), 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:pg128:36:106
# text = Ali Cogia made a low bow, and pleaded his cause point by point; concluding by imploring the Cadi not to inflict on him such a heavy loss.
1	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Cogia	Cogia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	pleaded	plead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	cause	cause	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	concluding	conclude	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
17	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	imploring	implore	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Cadi	Cadi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	inflict	inflict	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	29	det:predet	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Ali | a low bow |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Product |
| 2 | **plead** *speech: request* | past | Ali *not said here* | Ali's cause point |  |  |  | by point | tree rules |
| 3 | **conclude** | gerund | Ali *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **implore** | gerund | Ali *not said here* |  | the Cadi |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cadi=Recipient |
| 5 | **not** **inflict** | to-infinitive | Ali *not said here* | such heavy loss |  |  |  | on Ali | tree rules |
| 6 | **point** |  | Ali |  |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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