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title: At the end of about fifty days we cast anchor before a large town, a… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 11

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At the end of about fifty days we cast anchor before a large town, and the ship was immediately surrounded by a multitude of small boats filled with people, who had come either to meet their friends or from simple curiosity.

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**Who acts:** we, multitude, people · **What happens:** anchor, surround, fill, come, meet · **To what, where:** end, ship, small boats, friends

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, multitude, people), 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:pg128:10:11
# text = At the end of about fifty days we cast anchor before a large town, and the ship was immediately surrounded by a multitude of small boats filled with people, who had come either to meet their friends or from simple curiosity.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	cast	cast	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	anchor	anchor	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	before	before	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	multitude	multitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:agent	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	acl:relcl	_	_
35	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	34	advmod	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	advcl	_	_
38	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
40	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
41	from	from	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **anchor** |  | we |  |  |  | at the end of fifty days; before a large town |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **surround** | past · passive | a multitude of small boats | the ship |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **fill** | participle |  | small boats *not said here* |  |  |  | with people | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with people=Instrument |
| 4 | **come** | past · perfect | people |  |  |  |  | either *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **meet** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | people's friends or simple curiosity |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Co-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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