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title: And if you consult all the merchants in Bagdad you will not find one… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: And if you consult all the merchants in Bagdad you will not find one to give a contrary opinion." Who acts: you. 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 9

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And if you consult all the merchants in Bagdad you will not find one to give a contrary opinion."

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** consult, not find, give · **To what, where:** merchants, Bagdad, one, contrary opinion · **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 (you), 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:pg128:37:9
# text = And if you consult all the merchants in Bagdad you will not find one to give a contrary opinion."
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	consult	consult	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	contrary	contrary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consult** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | all merchants |  | Bagdad |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merchant=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **find** | future | you | one |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent one=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | to-infinitive |  | a contrary opinion |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=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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