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title: Luckily for me the merchants were on the watch, and setting up their… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Luckily for me the merchants were on the watch, and setting up their usual outcries they rushed to the nest scaring away the eagle. Who acts: merchants. 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 45

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Luckily for me the merchants were on the watch, and setting up their usual outcries they rushed to the nest scaring away the eagle.

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**Who acts:** merchants · **What happens:** be, set up, rush, scare away, outcry · **To what, where:** watch, usual outcries, nest, eagle

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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), 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:pg128:14:45
# text = Luckily for me the merchants were on the watch, and setting up their usual outcries they rushed to the nest scaring away the eagle.
1	Luckily	luckily	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	setting	set	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	csubj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	outcries	outcry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	scaring	scare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
23	away	away	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the merchants |  |  | the watch |  | luckily *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **set up** | gerund |  | merchants's usual outcries |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient outcry=Result |
| 3 | **rush** | past | merchants *= merchant* |  |  | the nest |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to nest=Destination |
| 4 | **scare away** | gerund | merchants *= merchant* *not said here* | the eagle |  |  |  | away *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eagle=Experiencer |
| 5 | **outcry** |  | merchants *= merchant* |  |  |  |  |  | nom outcry «communication transitive»: 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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