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title: We set sail and took our course towards the East Indies by the Persi… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: We set sail and took our course towards the East Indies by the Persian Gulf, having the coast of Persia upon our left hand and upon our right the shores of Arabia Felix. Who acts: We. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 42

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We set sail and took our course towards the East Indies by the Persian Gulf, having the coast of Persia upon our left hand and upon our right the shores of Arabia Felix.

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**Who acts:** We · **What happens:** sail, take, have · **To what, where:** course, coast

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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 (We), 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:pg128:13:42
# text = We set sail and took our course towards the East Indies by the Persian Gulf, having the coast of Persia upon our left hand and upon our right the shores of Arabia Felix.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	set	set	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	sail	sail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Indies	Indy	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Persian	Persian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Gulf	Gulf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Persia	Persia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	shores	shore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	Arabia	Arabia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Felix	Felix	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail** |  | We |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | past | We *not said here* | our course |  |  |  | towards the East Indies; by the Persian Gulf | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | We *not said here* | the coast of Persia |  |  |  | upon our left hand and our right  the shores of Arabia Felix | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coast=Patient |

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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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