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title: The fisherman stopped here to say to the genius: "You see what passe… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The fisherman stopped here to say to the genius: "You see what passed between the Greek king and the physician has just passed between us two. Who acts: fisherman, genius. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 85

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The fisherman stopped here to say to the genius: "You see what passed between the Greek king and the physician has just passed between us two.

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**Who acts:** fisherman, genius · **What happens:** stop, say, see, pass · **To what, where:** genius, physician · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fisherman, genius), 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:pg128:4:85
# text = The fisherman stopped here to say to the genius: "You see what passed between the Greek king and the physician has just passed between us two.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	genius	genius	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	nsubj	_	_
15	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
16	between	between	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	physician	physician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	just	just	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
26	between	between	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
28	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | past | the fisherman |  |  | here |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | the fisherman *not said here* |  | the genius |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to genius=Recipient |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | present | the genius *= genius* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **pass** *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  |  | between the Greek king | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between king=Location |
| 5 | **pass** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | the physician |  |  |  | between us | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme between we=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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