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title: They pronounced the olives good, and fresh that year. — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: They pronounced the olives good, and fresh that year. Who acts: merchants. 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 40

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They pronounced the olives good, and fresh that year.

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**Who acts:** merchants · **What happens:** pronounce · **To what, where:** olives

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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 (merchants), 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:pg128:37:40
# text = They pronounced the olives good, and fresh that year.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	pronounced	pronounce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	olives	olive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pronounce** | past | merchants *= merchant* | the olives |  |  |  | good *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent olive=Theme |

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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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