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title: So once more providing myself with the rarest and choicest merchandi… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: So once more providing myself with the rarest and choicest merchandise of Bagdad, I conveyed it to Balsora, and set sail with other merchants of my acquaintance for distant lands. Who acts: I, 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 70

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So once more providing myself with the rarest and choicest merchandise of Bagdad, I conveyed it to Balsora, and set sail with other merchants of my acquaintance for distant lands.

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**Who acts:** I, my · **What happens:** provide, convey, acquaint · **To what, where:** myself, life, Balsora

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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, 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:pg128:14:70
# text = So once more providing myself with the rarest and choicest merchandise of Bagdad, I conveyed it to Balsora, and set sail with other merchants of my acquaintance for distant lands.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	advmod	_	_
3	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	providing	provide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
5	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	rarest	rare	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	choicest	choice	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	conj	_	_
11	merchandise	merchandise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	conveyed	convey	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Balsora	Balsora	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	set	set	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	sail	sail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **provide** | gerund | I *not said here* | myself |  |  |  | with the rarest merchandise of Bagdad | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent myself=Recipient with merchandise=Theme |
| 2 | **convey** | past | I | life | Balsora |  |  | set sail with other merchants of my acquaintance for distant lands *obl* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to balsora=Recipient |
| 3 | **acquaint** |  | my |  |  |  |  | for distant lands | nom acquaintance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |

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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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