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title: When I succeeded to my father's throne my first care was to visit th… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: When I succeeded to my father's throne my first care was to visit the provinces on the mainland, and then to sail to the numerous islands which lay off the shore, in order to gain the hearts of my subjects. Who acts: I, first care, numerous islands, my. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainmen
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 15

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When I succeeded to my father's throne my first care was to visit the provinces on the mainland, and then to sail to the numerous islands which lay off the shore, in order to gain the hearts of my subjects.

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**Who acts:** I, first care, numerous islands, my · **What happens:** succeed, be, sail, lay off, gain, care · **To what, where:** mainland, numerous islands, shore, hearts

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, first care, numerous islands, 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:pg128:11:15
# text = When I succeeded to my father's throne my first care was to visit the provinces on the mainland, and then to sail to the numerous islands which lay off the shore, in order to gain the hearts of my subjects.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
11	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	provinces	province	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	mainland	mainland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	sail	sail	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	off	off	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	38	mark	_	_
36	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	fixed	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	gain	gain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	subjects	subject	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **succeed** | past | I |  |  |  |  | to my father's throne | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | my first care |  |  | the mainland |  | visit *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sail** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the numerous islands | then |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to island=Trajectory |
| 4 | **lay off** | present | the numerous islands | the shore |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shore=Theme |
| 5 | **gain** | to-infinitive |  | the hearts of my subjects |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme |
| 6 | **care** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «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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