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title: Before we left I exchanged one of my diamonds for much goodly mercha… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Before we left I exchanged one of my diamonds for much goodly merchandise by which I profited greatly on our homeward way. Who acts: we, I. 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 62

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Before we left I exchanged one of my diamonds for much goodly merchandise by which I profited greatly on our homeward way.

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**Who acts:** we, I · **What happens:** leave, exchange, profit · **To what, where:** one, homeward way

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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 (we, I), 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:pg128:14:62
# text = Before we left I exchanged one of my diamonds for much goodly merchandise by which I profited greatly on our homeward way.
1	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	exchanged	exchange	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	goodly	goodly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	merchandise	merchandise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obl	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	profited	profit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	homeward	homeward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | we |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **exchange** | past | I | one of my diamonds for much goodly merchandise |  |  |  |  | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 3 | **profit** | past | I |  |  | our homeward way |  | by much goodly merchandise; greatly *property* | vn benefit-72.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Beneficiary by which=Causer |

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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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