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title: I then took leave of him, and exchanging my merchandise for sandal a… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I then took leave of him, and exchanging my merchandise for sandal and aloes wood, camphor, nutmegs, cloves, pepper, and ginger, I embarked upon the same vessel and traded so successfully upon our homeward voyage that I arrived in Balsora with about one hundred thousand sequins. Who acts: I, homewar
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 84

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I then took leave of him, and exchanging my merchandise for sandal and aloes wood, camphor, nutmegs, cloves, pepper, and ginger, I embarked upon the same vessel and traded so successfully upon our homeward voyage that I arrived in Balsora with about one hundred thousand sequins.

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**Who acts:** I, homeward voyage, our · **What happens:** take, leave, exchange, embark, trade, arrive · **To what, where:** merchandise, Balsora

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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, homeward voyage, our), 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:pg128:13:84
# text = I then took leave of him, and exchanging my merchandise for sandal and aloes wood, camphor, nutmegs, cloves, pepper, and ginger, I embarked upon the same vessel and traded so successfully upon our homeward voyage that I arrived in Balsora with about one hundred thousand sequins.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
9	exchanging	exchange	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	merchandise	merchandise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	sandal	sandal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	aloes	aloe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	camphor	camphor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	nutmegs	nutmeg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	cloves	clove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	pepper	pepper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	ginger	ginger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	embarked	embark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
31	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	traded	trade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
37	so	so	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	successfully	successfully	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
39	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
41	homeward	homeward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
43	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	45	nsubj	_	_
44	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	acl:relcl	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	Balsora	Balsora	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
48	with	with	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
49	about	about	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
50	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	51	compound	_	_
51	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	52	compound	_	_
52	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	53	nummod	_	_
53	sequins	sequin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **take** | past | I |  |  |  | then |  | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |
| 2 | **leave** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of king | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of he=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **exchange** | gerund | I *not said here* | my merchandise |  |  |  | for sandal and aloes | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent merchandise=Theme for sandal=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **embark** | past | I |  |  |  |  | upon the same vessel | tree rules |
| 5 | **trade** | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon our homeward voyage; successfully *property* | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **arrive** | past | our homeward voyage |  |  | Balsora |  | with thousand sequins | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **voyage** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=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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