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title: At last we reached Balsora, whence I hastened to Bagdad, where my fi… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: At last we reached Balsora, whence I hastened to Bagdad, where my first action was to bestow large sums of money upon the poor, after which I settled down to enjoy tranquilly the riches I had gained with so much toil and pain. Who acts: we, I, first action, my. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Ente
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 63

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At last we reached Balsora, whence I hastened to Bagdad, where my first action was to bestow large sums of money upon the poor, after which I settled down to enjoy tranquilly the riches I had gained with so much toil and pain.

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**Who acts:** we, I, first action, my · **What happens:** reach, hasten, be, settle down, enjoy, gain · **To what, where:** Balsora, last, Bagdad, riches, money

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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, first action, 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:pg128:14:63
# text = At last we reached Balsora, whence I hastened to Bagdad, where my first action was to bestow large sums of money upon the poor, after which I settled down to enjoy tranquilly the riches I had gained with so much toil and pain.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Balsora	Balsora	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	16	amod	_	_
16	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	bestow	bestow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
20	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	sums	sum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	after	after	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obl	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	settled	settle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
32	down	down	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
35	tranquilly	tranquilly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
38	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	gained	gain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	37	acl:relcl	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	so	so	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	toil	toil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | we | Balsora |  | last |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent balsora=Theme at last=Asset |
| 2 | **hasten** | past | I |  | Bagdad |  |  | whence *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to bagdad=Result |
| 3 | **is** | past | my first action |  |  |  |  | upon the poor; bestow *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **settle down** | past | I |  |  |  |  | down *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **enjoy** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the riches |  |  |  | with much toil and pain; tranquilly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rich=Stimulus |
| 6 | **gain** | past · perfect | I | the riches *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rich=Theme |
| 7 | **act** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom action «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **sum** |  |  | money |  |  |  |  | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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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