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title: The deck was full of people, who watched my progress with interest,… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The deck was full of people, who watched my progress with interest, but when I seized a rope and swung myself on board, I found that I had only escaped death at the hands of the genius to perish by those of the sailors, lest I should bring ill-luck to the vessel and the merchants. " Who acts: deck, 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 6

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The deck was full of people, who watched my progress with interest, but when I seized a rope and swung myself on board, I found that I had only escaped death at the hands of the genius to perish by those of the sailors, lest I should bring ill-luck to the vessel and the merchants. "

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**Who acts:** deck, I, my · **What happens:** be, watch, seize, swing, find, escape · **To what, where:** progress, rope, myself, board, escaped death, hands · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (deck, I, my), 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:pg128:10:6
# text = The deck was full of people, who watched my progress with interest, but when I seized a rope and swung myself on board, I found that I had only escaped death at the hands of the genius to perish by those of the sailors, lest I should bring ill-luck to the vessel and the merchants. "
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	deck	deck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	progress	progress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	swung	swing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
23	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	obj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	only	only	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	escaped	escape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	34	amod	_	_
34	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
35	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	genius	genius	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	perish	perish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	ccomp	_	_
43	by	by	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	42	obl	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
49	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
50	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
51	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	conj	_	_
53	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	_
56	to	to	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
63	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the deck |  |  |  |  | of people; full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **watch** | past |  | my progress |  |  |  | with interest | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent progress=Theme |
| 3 | **seize** | past | I | a rope |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Theme |
| 4 | **swing** | past | I *not said here* | myself |  | board |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme on board=Location |
| 5 | **find** | past | I | escaped death |  | the hands of the genius |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent death=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 6 | **escape** | past · perfect | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **perish** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | by those | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **bring** | should | I | ill luck |  | the vessel and the merchants |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent luck=Theme to vessel=Destination |
| 9 | **progress** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom progress «act intransitive»: 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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