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title: Supposing seven years have passed without news of Ali Cogia, he need… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Supposing seven years have passed without news of Ali Cogia, he need not be dead for all that, and may come back any day. 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 26

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Supposing seven years have passed without news of Ali Cogia, he need not be dead for all that, and may come back any day.

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**Who acts:** Ali · **What happens:** suppose, pass, not be, come back · **To what, where:** Supposing seven years

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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:pg128:36:26
# text = Supposing seven years have passed without news of Ali Cogia, he need not be dead for all that, and may come back any day.
1	Supposing	suppose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
2	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	without	without	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	Cogia	Cogia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	need	need	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	conj	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
24	back	back	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
26	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suppose** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pass** | present · perfect · passive |  | Supposing seven years |  |  |  | without news of Ali | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present | Ali |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **come back** | may |  |  |  |  | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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