--- title: Sadie answered the merchant that she must first consult her sisters;… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: Sadie answered the merchant that she must first consult her sisters; and after having talked over the matter with them, she returned to tell him that he and his two friends would be welcome to join their company. Who acts: Sadie, vizir. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lan --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/6/75/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/6/) / 75 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 75 Sadie answered the merchant that she must first consult her sisters; and after having talked over the matter with them, she returned to tell him that he and his two friends would be welcome to join their company. **Who acts:** Sadie, vizir · **What happens:** answer, consult, talk, return, tell, be · **To what, where:** merchant, sisters, matter, vizir, company · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sadie, vizir), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg128:6:75 # text = Sadie answered the merchant that she must first consult her sisters; and after having talked over the matter with them, she returned to tell him that he and his two friends would be welcome to join their company. 1 Sadie Sadie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 merchant merchant NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 6 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 7 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 9 advmod _ _ 9 consult consult VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 after after SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 15 having have AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 aux _ _ 16 talked talk VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 17 over over ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 matter matter NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 iobj _ _ 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 32 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 conj _ _ 34 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 cop _ _ 36 welcome welcome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 ccomp _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 join join VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 company company NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Sadie | the merchant | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent merchant=Eventuality | | 2 | **consult** | must | Sadie | Sadie's sisters | | | | first *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Theme | | 3 | **talk** | gerund · perfect | Sadie *not said here* | | | the matter with merchants | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **return** | past | Sadie | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Sadie *not said here* | | vizir | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 6 | **is** | would | vizir | | | | | welcome *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **join** | to-infinitive | vizir *not said here* | merchants's company | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/6/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/6/76/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/6/)