--- title: "Yes, my noble friends," he continued, addressing the company, "I as… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: "Yes, my noble friends," he continued, addressing the company, "I assure you that my adventures have been strange enough to deter even the most avaricious men from seeking wealth by traversing the seas. Who acts: noble friends, Sindbad, adventures, my. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainment --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/13/36/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/13/) / 36 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 36 "Yes, my noble friends," he continued, addressing the company, "I assure you that my adventures have been strange enough to deter even the most avaricious men from seeking wealth by traversing the seas. **Who acts:** noble friends, Sindbad, adventures, my · **What happens:** continue, address, assure, be, deter, seek · **To what, where:** company, you, avaricious men, wealth, seas This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noble friends, Sindbad, adventures, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg128:13:36 # text = "Yes, my noble friends," he continued, addressing the company, "I assure you that my adventures have been strange enough to deter even the most avaricious men from seeking wealth by traversing the seas. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 noble noble ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 continued continue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 addressing address VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 company company NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 assure assure VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 iobj _ _ 20 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 21 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 adventures adventure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 23 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 25 cop _ _ 25 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 advcl _ _ 26 enough enough ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 deter deter VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 29 even even ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 31 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 32 advmod _ _ 32 avaricious avaricious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 34 from from SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 35 seeking seek VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 36 wealth wealth NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 37 by by SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 38 traversing traverse VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 35 advcl _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 seas sea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **continue** | past | my noble friends | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **address** | gerund | my noble friends *not said here* | the company | | | | | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Destination | | 3 | **assure** *in a quote* | present | Sindbad | | you | | | | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present · perfect | my adventures | | | | | enough, strange *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **deter** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | my adventures *not said here* | the avaricious men | | | | | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer man=Eventuality | | 6 | **seek** *in a quote* | gerund | my adventures *not said here* | wealth | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wealth=Theme | | 7 | **traverse** *in a quote* | gerund | my adventures *not said here* | the seas | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sea=Co-Theme | | 8 | **adventure** *in a quote* | | my | | | | | | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/13/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/13/37/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/13/)