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title: I began by picking up all the largest diamonds I could find and stor… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I began by picking up all the largest diamonds I could find and storing them carefully in the leathern wallet which had held my provisions; this I tied securely to my belt. Who acts: I, this, my. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14, with its dependency 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 42

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I began by picking up all the largest diamonds I could find and storing them carefully in the leathern wallet which had held my provisions; this I tied securely to my belt.

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**Who acts:** I, this, my · **What happens:** begin, pick up, find, store, hold, tie · **To what, where:** largest diamonds, diamonds, leathern wallet

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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, this, 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:pg128:14:42
# text = I began by picking up all the largest diamonds I could find and storing them carefully in the leathern wallet which had held my provisions; this I tied securely to my belt.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	picking	pick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
9	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	storing	store	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	leathern	leathern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	wallet	wallet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	provisions	provision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
27	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	nsubj	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	tied	tie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
30	securely	securely	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **pick up** | gerund | I *not said here* | all largest diamonds |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent diamond=Topic |
| 3 | **find** | could | I | all largest diamonds *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent diamond=Topic |
| 4 | **store** | gerund | I *not said here* | diamonds *= diamond* |  | the leathern wallet |  | carefully *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in wallet=Location |
| 5 | **hold** | past · perfect · passive |  | the leathern wallet |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme provision=Eventuality |
| 6 | **tie** | past | this |  |  |  |  | to my belt; securely *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to belt=Co-Patient |
| 7 | **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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