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title: Ali Cogia heard the words, and lost no time in following the advice. — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Ali Cogia heard the words, and lost no time in following the advice. 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 15

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Ali Cogia heard the words, and lost no time in following the advice.

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**Who acts:** Ali · **What happens:** hear, lose, follow · **To what, where:** words, advice

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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:pg128:36:15
# text = Ali Cogia heard the words, and lost no time in following the advice.
1	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Cogia	Cogia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | Ali | the words |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
| 2 | **lose** | past | Ali *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **follow** | gerund | Ali *not said here* | the advice |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=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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