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title: Like the other pilgrims he visited the sacred Mosque, and after all… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Like the other pilgrims he visited the sacred Mosque, and after all his religious duties were performed, he set out his goods to the best advantage, hoping to gain some customers among the passers-by. Who acts: Ali. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36, 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 12

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Like the other pilgrims he visited the sacred Mosque, and after all his religious duties were performed, he set out his goods to the best advantage, hoping to gain some customers among the passers-by.

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**Who acts:** Ali · **What happens:** visit, perform, set out, hope, gain · **To what, where:** sacred Mosque, religious duties, goods, customers

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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:pg128:36:12
# text = Like the other pilgrims he visited the sacred Mosque, and after all his religious duties were performed, he set out his goods to the best advantage, hoping to gain some customers among the passers-by.
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	pilgrims	pilgrim	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	visited	visit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Mosque	Mosque	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
12	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	duties	duty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	performed	perform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	21	obj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	amod	_	_
28	advantage	advantage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	hoping	hope	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	gain	gain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	34	det	_	_
34	customers	customer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
35	among	among	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	passers	passer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	by	by	ADP	IN	_	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **visit** | past | Ali | the sacred Mosque |  |  |  | like the other pilgrims | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mosque=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **perform** | past · passive |  | Ali's religious duties |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **set out** | past | Ali | Ali's goods |  |  |  | to the best advantage | tree rules |
| 4 | **hope** | gerund | Ali *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **gain** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Ali *not said here* | some customers |  |  |  | among the passers | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent customer=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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