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title: I stayed with the merchants several days, and then as they were jour… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I stayed with the merchants several days, and then as they were journeying homewards I gladly accompanied them. Who acts: I, 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 52

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I stayed with the merchants several days, and then as they were journeying homewards I gladly accompanied them.

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**Who acts:** I, merchants · **What happens:** stay, journey, accompany · **To what, where:** homewards, merchants

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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, 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:pg128:14:52
# text = I stayed with the merchants several days, and then as they were journeying homewards I gladly accompanied them.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	journeying	journey	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
15	homewards	homeward	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	gladly	gladly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | past | I |  |  |  | day | with the merchants | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with merchant=Location |
| 2 | **journey** | past · progressive | merchants *= merchant* | homewards |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **accompany** | past | I | merchants *= merchant* |  |  |  | gladly *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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