--- title: A month later Ali Cogia re-entered Bagdad, and as his house was stil… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: A month later Ali Cogia re-entered Bagdad, and as his house was still let he went to an inn; and the following day set out to see his friend the merchant, who received him with open arms and many expressions of surprise. Who acts: Ali, merchant. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by A --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/36/46/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/36/) / 46 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 46 A month later Ali Cogia re-entered Bagdad, and as his house was still let he went to an inn; and the following day set out to see his friend the merchant, who received him with open arms and many expressions of surprise. **Who acts:** Ali, merchant · **What happens:** re-enter, be, go, follow, set out, see · **To what, where:** Bagdad, inn, following day, friend, Ali 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, merchant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg128:36:46 # text = A month later Ali Cogia re-entered Bagdad, and as his house was still let he went to an inn; and the following day set out to see his friend the merchant, who received him with open arms and many expressions of surprise. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 6 advmod _ _ 4 Ali Ali PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 Cogia Cogia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 flat _ _ 6 re-entered re-enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 Bagdad Bagdad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 10 as as ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 still still ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 ccomp _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 inn inn NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 following follow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 amod _ _ 25 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 26 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 acl _ _ 27 out out ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 advcl _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 merchant merchant NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 36 received receive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 37 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 expressions expression NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 conj _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 surprise surprise NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **re-enter** | past | Ali | Bagdad | | | day | late *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | past | Ali *not said here* | | | | still | as Ali's house; let *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **go** | past | Ali | | | a inn | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to inn=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **follow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **set out** | participle | | the following day *not said here* | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **see** | to-infinitive | | Ali's friend | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **receive** | past | the merchant | Ali | | | | with open arms and many expressions of surprise | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/36/45/) - next →: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/36/47/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/36/)