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title: Descending from the tree I hastily collected what remained of my pro… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Descending from the tree I hastily collected what remained of my provisions and set off as fast as I could go towards it. Who acts: I, my. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 16

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Descending from the tree I hastily collected what remained of my provisions and set off as fast as I could go towards it.

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**Who acts:** I, my · **What happens:** descend, collect, remain, set off, go, provide · **To what, where:** tree, curiosity

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. 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:pg128:14:16
# text = Descending from the tree I hastily collected what remained of my provisions and set off as fast as I could go towards it.
1	Descending	descend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	hastily	hastily	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	collected	collect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	nsubj	_	_
9	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	provisions	provision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	off	off	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
22	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **descend** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  | the tree |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from tree=Location |
| 2 | **collect** | past | I |  |  |  |  | hastily *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **remain** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of my provisions | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **set off** | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **go** | could | I |  |  | curiosity |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards it=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **provide** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom provision «communication 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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