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title: "Ali Cogia," answered the merchant, "you allow that it was a vase of… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Ali Cogia," answered the merchant, "you allow that it was a vase of olives you placed in my charge. Who acts: Ali, you, despair, my. 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 70

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"Ali Cogia," answered the merchant, "you allow that it was a vase of olives you placed in my charge.

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**Who acts:** Ali, you, despair, my · **What happens:** answer, allow, be, place, charge · **To what, where:** merchant, vase, olives, charge · **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, you, despair, my), 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:pg128:36:70
# text = "Ali Cogia," answered the merchant, "you allow that it was a vase of olives you placed in my charge.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	Cogia	Cogia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	allow	allow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	vase	vase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	ccomp	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	olives	olive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Ali | the merchant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **allow** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | despair | a vase |  |  |  | of olives | tree rules |
| 4 | **place** *in a quote* | past | you | olives *not said here* |  | my charge |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent olive=Theme in charge=Destination |
| 5 | **charge** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom charge «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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