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title: Sindbad had adventures which perhaps came out of the Odyssey of Home… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Sindbad had adventures which perhaps came out of the Odyssey of Homer; in fact, all the East had contributed its wonders, and sent them to Europe in one parcel. Who acts: Sindbad, adventures, East. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1, with its dependency
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 35

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Sindbad had adventures which perhaps came out of the Odyssey of Homer; in fact, all the East had contributed its wonders, and sent them to Europe in one parcel.

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**Who acts:** Sindbad, adventures, East · **What happens:** have, come out, contribute, send, wonder · **To what, where:** adventures, fact, Odyssey, wonders, Europe, one parcel

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sindbad, adventures, East), 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:pg128:1:35
# text = Sindbad had adventures which perhaps came out of the Odyssey of Homer; in fact, all the East had contributed its wonders, and sent them to Europe in one parcel.
1	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Odyssey	Odyssey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Homer	Homer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	contributed	contribute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	acl	_	_
22	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	wonders	wonder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	parcel	parcel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Sindbad | adventures |  | fact |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Patient |
| 2 | **come out** | past | adventures | the Odyssey of Homer |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient odyssey=Result |
| 3 | **contribute** | past · perfect | the East | East's wonders |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent wonder=Theme |
| 4 | **send** | past | Sindbad *not said here* | wonders *= wonder* | Europe | one parcel |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to europe=Destination |
| 5 | **wonder** |  | East |  |  |  |  |  | nom wonder «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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