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title: So Ali Cogia disappeared for an instant, and then pretended to lay a… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: So Ali Cogia disappeared for an instant, and then pretended to lay a vase at the feet of the Cadi, declaring it was his vase, which he had given to the accused for safe custody; and in order to be quite correct, the Cadi asked the merchant if he recognised it as the same vase. Who acts: Ali, vase, C
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 111

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So Ali Cogia disappeared for an instant, and then pretended to lay a vase at the feet of the Cadi, declaring it was his vase, which he had given to the accused for safe custody; and in order to be quite correct, the Cadi asked the merchant if he recognised it as the same vase.

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**Who acts:** Ali, vase, Cadi · **What happens:** disappear, pretend, lay, declare, be, give · **To what, where:** vase, feet, accused safe custody, merchant · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, vase, Cadi), 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:pg128:36:111
# text = So Ali Cogia disappeared for an instant, and then pretended to lay a vase at the feet of the Cadi, declaring it was his vase, which he had given to the accused for safe custody; and in order to be quite correct, the Cadi asked the merchant if he recognised it as the same vase.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Cogia	Cogia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	vase	vase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Cadi	Cadi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	declaring	declare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	vase	vase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	conj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
35	accused	accuse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	amod	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	custody	custody	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	46	case	_	_
42	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	fixed	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
44	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	cop	_	_
45	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	correct	correct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	Cadi	Cadi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
50	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	_
53	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
54	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
55	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	advcl	_	_
56	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	obj	_	_
57	as	as	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
59	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	vase	vase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disappear** | past | Ali |  |  |  |  | for a instant | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pretend** | past | Ali *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lay** | to-infinitive | Ali *not said here* | a vase |  | the feet of the Cadi |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent vase=Theme at foot=Destination |
| 4 | **declare** *speech: other* | gerund | Ali *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | past | vase | Cadi's vase |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **give** | past · perfect · passive |  | Cadi's vase | the accused safe custody |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to custody=Recipient |
| 7 | **accuse** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | correct *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the Cadi | the merchant |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent merchant=Recipient |
| 10 | **recognise** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Cadi | vase |  |  |  | as the same vase | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus as vase=Attribute |

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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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