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title: They then returned to the vessel two or three times for furniture an… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: They then returned to the vessel two or three times for furniture and provisions, and finally were accompanied by an old man, leading a handsome boy of fourteen or fifteen years of age. Who acts: islands, old man. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11, wi
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 52

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They then returned to the vessel two or three times for furniture and provisions, and finally were accompanied by an old man, leading a handsome boy of fourteen or fifteen years of age.

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**Who acts:** islands, old man · **What happens:** return, accompany, lead · **To what, where:** handsome boy

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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 (islands, old man), 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:pg128:11:52
# text = They then returned to the vessel two or three times for furniture and provisions, and finally were accompanied by an old man, leading a handsome boy of fourteen or fifteen years of age.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	conj	_	_
10	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	furniture	furniture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	provisions	provision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	conj	_	_
33	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | islands *= island* |  |  |  | then | to the vessel  two times for furniture and provisions *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to vessel=Result |
| 2 | **accompany** | past · passive | a old man |  |  |  |  | finally *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **lead** | gerund | a old man *not said here* | a handsome boy of fourteen years of age |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=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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