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title: Hesitating no longer we clambered upon our rafts and rowed with all… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Hesitating no longer we clambered upon our rafts and rowed with all our might out to sea. 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 32

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Hesitating no longer we clambered upon our rafts and rowed with all our might out to sea.

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**What happens:** hesitate, clamber, row · **To what, where:** rafts

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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: 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:pg128:15:32
# text = Hesitating no longer we clambered upon our rafts and rowed with all our might out to sea.
1	Hesitating	hesitate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	nsubj	_	_
2	no	no	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	clambered	clamber	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	rafts	raft	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	rowed	row	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
13	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
14	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	out	out	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hesitate** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **clamber** | past |  |  |  | our rafts |  | long *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon raft=Trajectory |
| 3 | **row** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with our sea | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

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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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