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title: I was at first much troubled by the uneasy motion of the vessel, but… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I was at first much troubled by the uneasy motion of the vessel, but speedily recovered my health, and since that hour have been no more plagued by sea-sickness. Who acts: uneasy motion, sea sickness, vessel. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13, with it
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 43

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I was at first much troubled by the uneasy motion of the vessel, but speedily recovered my health, and since that hour have been no more plagued by sea-sickness.

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**Who acts:** uneasy motion, sea sickness, vessel · **What happens:** trouble, recover, not plague, motion · **To what, where:** I, health

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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 (uneasy motion, sea sickness, vessel), 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:pg128:13:43
# text = I was at first much troubled by the uneasy motion of the vessel, but speedily recovered my health, and since that hour have been no more plagued by sea-sickness.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	advmod	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	troubled	trouble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	motion	motion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	speedily	speedily	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	recovered	recover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
22	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
24	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
25	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
26	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	aux:pass	_	_
27	no	no	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	29	advmod	_	_
29	plagued	plague	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	sickness	sickness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trouble** | past · passive | the uneasy motion of the vessel | I |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **recover** | past | the uneasy motion of the vessel *not said here* | my health |  |  |  | speedily *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent health=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **plague** | present · perfect · passive | sea sickness |  |  |  | hour |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **motion** |  | the vessel |  |  |  |  |  | nom motion «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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