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title: Taking off my turban I bound myself securely to it with the linen in… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Taking off my turban I bound myself securely to it with the linen in the hope that the roc, when it took flight next morning, would bear me away with it from the desolate island. Who acts: I, it, roc. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14, with its depend
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 23

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Taking off my turban I bound myself securely to it with the linen in the hope that the roc, when it took flight next morning, would bear me away with it from the desolate island.

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**Who acts:** I, it, roc · **What happens:** take off, bound, take, bear, desolate · **To what, where:** turban, hope, myself, flight, me

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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, it, roc), 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:pg128:14:23
# text = Taking off my turban I bound myself securely to it with the linen in the hope that the roc, when it took flight next morning, would bear me away with it from the desolate island.
1	Taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	off	off	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	turban	turban	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	bound	bound	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
7	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obj	_	_
8	securely	securely	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	roc	roc	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
28	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
30	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	desolate	desolate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	compound	_	_
37	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take off** | gerund |  | my turban |  | the hope |  | with the linen; with bird; from the desolate island; away, securely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bound** | present | I | myself |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location myself=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | past | it | flight |  |  | morning |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=Theme |
| 4 | **bear** | would | the roc | me |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 5 | **desolate** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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