--- title: Then turning to an officer, he added, "Give him a thousand pieces of… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: Then turning to an officer, he added, "Give him a thousand pieces of gold out of my treasury, and twenty waggon-loads of merchandise out of my private stores, and let an escort of soldiers accompany him home." Who acts: man, escort. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, O --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/9/97/) [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 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/9/) / 97 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 97 Then turning to an officer, he added, "Give him a thousand pieces of gold out of my treasury, and twenty waggon-loads of merchandise out of my private stores, and let an escort of soldiers accompany him home." **Who acts:** man, escort · **What happens:** turn, add, give, let, accompany · **To what, where:** officer, private stores, thousand pieces, man, treasury · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, escort), 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:pg128:9:97 # text = Then turning to an officer, he added, "Give him a thousand pieces of gold out of my treasury, and twenty waggon-loads of merchandise out of my private stores, and let an escort of soldiers accompany him home." 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ _ 2 turning turn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 officer officer NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 added add VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 Give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 iobj _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 out out ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 treasury treasury NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 25 waggon waggon NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 loads load NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 parataxis _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 merchandise merchandise NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 out out ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 33 private private ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 stores store NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ _ 38 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 escort escort NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nmod _ _ 42 accompany accompany VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 parataxis _ _ 43 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obj _ _ 44 home home ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | gerund | man *not said here* | | | a officer | then | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to officer=Trajectory | | 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | man | | | my private stores | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | | thousand pieces of gold | man | my treasury | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient piece=Theme | | 4 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **accompany** *in a quote* | present | a escort of soldiers | man | | | | home *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | 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 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/9/96/) - next →: [sentence 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/9/98/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/9/)