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title: After wandering aimlessly through several countries, I resolved to c… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: After wandering aimlessly through several countries, I resolved to come to Bagdad and request an audience of the Commander of the Faithful. Who acts: I. 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 8

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After wandering aimlessly through several countries, I resolved to come to Bagdad and request an audience of the Commander of the Faithful.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** wonder, resolve, come, request · **To what, where:** several countries, Bagdad, audience

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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), 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:pg128:11:8
# text = After wandering aimlessly through several countries, I resolved to come to Bagdad and request an audience of the Commander of the Faithful.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
3	aimlessly	aimlessly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	request	request	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	audience	audience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Commander	Commander	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  | several countries |  | aimlessly *property* | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **resolve** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  | Bagdad |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bagdad=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **request** | infinitive | I *not said here* | a audience of the Commander of the Faithful |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent audience=Recipient |

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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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