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title: After a few moments given to inquiries Ali Cogia begged the merchant… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: After a few moments given to inquiries Ali Cogia begged the merchant to hand him over the vase that he had taken care of for so long. 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 47

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After a few moments given to inquiries Ali Cogia begged the merchant to hand him over the vase that he had taken care of for so long.

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**Who acts:** Ali · **What happens:** give, beg, hand, take · **To what, where:** few moments, inquiries, merchant, Ali, vase, care · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:pg128:36:47
# text = After a few moments given to inquiries Ali Cogia begged the merchant to hand him over the vase that he had taken care of for so long.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	moments	moment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
5	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	inquiries	inquiry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	Cogia	Cogia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	hand	hand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	over	over	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	vase	vase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
23	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | participle |  | a few moments *not said here* | inquiries |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to inquiry=Recipient |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | Ali | the merchant |  |  | moment |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent merchant=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **hand** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | Ali |  | the vase |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | past · perfect | Ali | care |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent care=Theme for long=Beneficiary |

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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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