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title: All agreed with me, and we spent the day in building rafts, each cap… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: All agreed with me, and we spent the day in building rafts, each capable of carrying three persons. Who acts: All. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 23

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All agreed with me, and we spent the day in building rafts, each capable of carrying three persons.

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**Who acts:** All · **What happens:** agree, spend, carry · **To what, where:** building rafts, three persons

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (All), 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:pg128:15:23
# text = All agreed with me, and we spent the day in building rafts, each capable of carrying three persons.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	nsubj	_	_
2	agreed	agree	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	rafts	raft	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	capable	capable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
17	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
19	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with me | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with i=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **spend** | past | All |  |  | building rafts | day |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **carry** | gerund | All *not said here* | three persons |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme |

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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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