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title: Ali Cogia made a movement as if he was taking off the lid, and the l… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Ali Cogia made a movement as if he was taking off the lid, and the little Cadi on his part made a pretence of peering into a vase. Who acts: Ali, little Cadi, pretence. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 113

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Ali Cogia made a movement as if he was taking off the lid, and the little Cadi on his part made a pretence of peering into a vase.

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**Who acts:** Ali, little Cadi, pretence · **What happens:** make, take off, peer · **To what, where:** movement, lid, pretence

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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, little Cadi, pretence), 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:pg128:36:113
# text = Ali Cogia made a movement as if he was taking off the lid, and the little Cadi on his part made a pretence of peering into a vase.
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	5	det	_	_
5	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
11	off	off	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Cadi	Cadi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	pretence	pretence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	peering	peer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	vase	vase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	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 movement |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent movement=Product |
| 2 | **take off** | past · progressive | Ali | the lid |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | past | the little Cadi on Cadi's part | a pretence |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pretence=Product |
| 4 | **peer** | gerund | a pretence *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into a vase | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into vase=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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