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title: These merchants came to the valley at the time when the eagles, whic… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: These merchants came to the valley at the time when the eagles, which keep their eyries in the rocks, had hatched their young. Who acts: merchants, eagles. 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 37

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These merchants came to the valley at the time when the eagles, which keep their eyries in the rocks, had hatched their young.

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**Who acts:** merchants, eagles · **What happens:** come, keep, hatch · **To what, where:** valley, eyries, rocks, young

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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 (merchants, eagles), 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:pg128:14:37
# text = These merchants came to the valley at the time when the eagles, which keep their eyries in the rocks, had hatched their young.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	15	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	eagles	eagle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	eyries	eyrie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	hatched	hatch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	young	young	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | this merchants |  |  | the valley | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to valley=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **keep** | present | the eagles | merchants's eyries |  | the rocks |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent eyrie=Theme in rock=Location |
| 3 | **hatch** | past · perfect |  | merchants's young |  |  |  |  | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent young=Product |

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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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