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title: "I would rather have come to anchor anywhere than here," quoth our c… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "I would rather have come to anchor anywhere than here," quoth our captain. " Who acts: Sindbad, 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 72

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"I would rather have come to anchor anywhere than here," quoth our captain. "

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**Who acts:** Sindbad, I · **What happens:** come, anchor, quoth · **To what, where:** captain

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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 (Sindbad, 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:pg128:14:72
# text = "I would rather have come to anchor anywhere than here," quoth our captain. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	anchor	anchor	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	8	advmod	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
14	quoth	quoth	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
15	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | would · perfect | Sindbad |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **anchor** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Sindbad *not said here* |  |  |  |  | anywhere *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **quoth** | infinitive | I *not said here* | our captain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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