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title: I procured, therefore, such goods as were suitable for the places I… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I procured, therefore, such goods as were suitable for the places I intended to visit, and embarked for the second time in a good ship with other merchants whom I knew to be honourable men. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14, with its depe
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 9

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I procured, therefore, such goods as were suitable for the places I intended to visit, and embarked for the second time in a good ship with other merchants whom I knew to be honourable men.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** procure, be, intend, visit, embark, know · **To what, where:** such goods, places, good ship, other merchants, honourable men

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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), 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:pg128:14:9
# text = I procured, therefore, such goods as were suitable for the places I intended to visit, and embarked for the second time in a good ship with other merchants whom I knew to be honourable men.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	procured	procure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	2	obl	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	suitable	suitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	intended	intend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	embarked	embark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	24	amod	_	_
24	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
32	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	obj	_	_
33	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
36	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	cop	_	_
37	honourable	honourable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **procure** | past | I | such goods |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the places; suitable *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **intend** | past | I | the places *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **visit** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **embark** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  | a good ship | time | with other merchants | tree rules |
| 6 | **know** | past | I | other merchants |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus |
| 7 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | honourable men |  |  |  |  | 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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