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title: Judgment being given the merchant returned home triumphant, and Ali… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Judgment being given the merchant returned home triumphant, and Ali Cogia went back to his inn to draw up a petition to the Caliph. Who acts: merchant, 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 92

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Judgment being given the merchant returned home triumphant, and Ali Cogia went back to his inn to draw up a petition to the Caliph.

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**Who acts:** merchant, Ali · **What happens:** give, return, go back, draw up · **To what, where:** Judgment, petition, Caliph

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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 (merchant, 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:pg128:36:92
# text = Judgment being given the merchant returned home triumphant, and Ali Cogia went back to his inn to draw up a petition to the Caliph.
1	Judgment	judgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	home	home	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	triumphant	triumphant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	Cogia	Cogia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	inn	inn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	draw	draw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	petition	petition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | gerund · passive |  | Judgment |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **return** | past | the merchant |  |  |  |  | home, triumphant *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go back** | past | Ali |  |  |  |  | to Ali's inn *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to inn=Result |
| 4 | **draw up** | to-infinitive | Ali *not said here* | a petition | the Caliph |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent petition=Theme to caliph=Destination |

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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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