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title: Bid Ali Cogia bring his vase of olives, and see that two dealers in… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Bid Ali Cogia bring his vase of olives, and see that two dealers in olives are present." Who acts: Bid, two dealers. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 20

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Bid Ali Cogia bring his vase of olives, and see that two dealers in olives are present."

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**Who acts:** Bid, two dealers · **What happens:** bring, see, be · **To what, where:** vase · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bid, two dealers), 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:pg128:37:20
# text = Bid Ali Cogia bring his vase of olives, and see that two dealers in olives are present."
1	Bid	Bid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Cogia	Cogia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	vase	vase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	olives	olive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	dealers	dealer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	olives	olive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | infinitive | Bid | Bid's vase of olives |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent vase=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | Bid *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | present | two dealers in olives |  |  |  |  | present *property* | tree rules |

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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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