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title: The sailors ran the ship into a creek, where ten slaves landed, carr… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The sailors ran the ship into a creek, where ten slaves landed, carrying spades and pickaxes. Who acts: sailors, ten slaves. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 50

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The sailors ran the ship into a creek, where ten slaves landed, carrying spades and pickaxes.

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**Who acts:** sailors, ten slaves · **What happens:** run, land, carry · **To what, where:** ship, creek, spades

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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 (sailors, ten slaves), 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:pg128:11:50
# text = The sailors ran the ship into a creek, where ten slaves landed, carrying spades and pickaxes.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	creek	creek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
11	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	landed	land	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
16	spades	spade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	pickaxes	pickax	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | the sailors | the ship |  | a creek |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent ship=Theme into creek=Trajectory |
| 2 | **land** | past | ten slaves |  |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **carry** | gerund | ten slaves *not said here* | spades and pickaxes |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spade=Theme |

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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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