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title: These voyages gave me such a taste for sailing that I soon determine… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: These voyages gave me such a taste for sailing that I soon determined to explore more distant seas, and commanded a fleet of large ships to be got ready without delay. Who acts: voyages, I. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree a
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 16

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These voyages gave me such a taste for sailing that I soon determined to explore more distant seas, and commanded a fleet of large ships to be got ready without delay.

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**Who acts:** voyages, I · **What happens:** give, determine, explore, command, get · **To what, where:** taste, me, distant seas, fleet · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (voyages, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg128:945`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg128:11:16
# text = These voyages gave me such a taste for sailing that I soon determined to explore more distant seas, and commanded a fleet of large ships to be got ready without delay.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	voyages	voyage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	7	det:predet	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	sailing	sailing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	determined	determine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	explore	explore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
17	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fleet	fleet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	xcomp	_	_
30	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	_
31	without	without	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	delay	delay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | this voyages | such taste | me |  |  | for sailing | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Recipient taste=Theme for sailing=Asset |
| 2 | **determine** | past | I |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **explore** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | distant seas |  |  |  |  | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent sea=Location |
| 4 | **command** | past | I *not said here* | a fleet of large ships |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent fleet=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **get** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | without delay; ready *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING» |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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