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title: I bought land and slaves, and built a great house in which I resolve… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I bought land and slaves, and built a great house in which I resolved to live happily, and in the enjoyment of all the pleasures of life to forget my past sufferings. Who acts: I, my. 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 86

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I bought land and slaves, and built a great house in which I resolved to live happily, and in the enjoyment of all the pleasures of life to forget my past sufferings.

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**Who acts:** I, my · **What happens:** buy, build, resolve, live, forget, enjoy · **To what, where:** land, great house, past sufferings, pleasures, life

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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, my), 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:pg128:13:86
# text = I bought land and slaves, and built a great house in which I resolved to live happily, and in the enjoyment of all the pleasures of life to forget my past sufferings.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bought	buy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obl	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	enjoyment	enjoyment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	pleasures	pleasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
32	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	past	past	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	sufferings	suffering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | past | I | land and slaves |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme |
| 2 | **build** | past | I *not said here* | a great house |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product |
| 3 | **resolve** | past | I |  |  | a great house |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **live** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | happily *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **forget** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | my past sufferings |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **enjoy** |  |  | all pleasures of life |  |  |  |  | nom enjoyment «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **please** |  |  | life |  |  |  |  | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 8 | **suffer** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom suffering «state intransitive»: 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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