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description: I sold all my household goods by public auction, and joined a company of merchants who traded by sea, embarking with them at Balsora in a ship which we had fitted out between us. Who acts: I, merchants. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13, with its depe
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 41

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I sold all my household goods by public auction, and joined a company of merchants who traded by sea, embarking with them at Balsora in a ship which we had fitted out between us.

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**Who acts:** I, merchants · **What happens:** sell, join, trade, embark, fit out · **To what, where:** household goods, company, Balsora, ship

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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 (I, merchants), 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:pg128:13:41
# text = I sold all my household goods by public auction, and joined a company of merchants who traded by sea, embarking with them at Balsora in a ship which we had fitted out between us.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sold	sell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	2	obj	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	auction	auction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	traded	trade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	embarking	embark	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Balsora	Balsora	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	fitted	fit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl:relcl	_	_
34	out	out	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	between	between	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | past | I | my household goods |  |  |  | by public auction | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Theme |
| 2 | **join** | past | I *not said here* | a company of merchants |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Patient |
| 3 | **trade** | past | merchants |  |  |  |  | by sea | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **embark** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  | Balsora |  | with merchants *= merchant*; in a ship | tree rules |
| 5 | **fit out** | past · perfect · passive |  | a ship |  |  |  | between us | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme between we=Destination |

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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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