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title: But to my joy and relief I saw a ship sailing by, and by shouting wi… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: But to my joy and relief I saw a ship sailing by, and by shouting wildly and waving my turban I managed to attract the attention of her crew. Who acts: I, ship, my, crew. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 47

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But to my joy and relief I saw a ship sailing by, and by shouting wildly and waving my turban I managed to attract the attention of her crew.

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**Who acts:** I, ship, my, crew · **What happens:** see, sail, shout, wave, manage, attract · **To what, where:** ship, turban, attention

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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 (I, ship, my, crew), 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:pg128:15:47
# text = But to my joy and relief I saw a ship sailing by, and by shouting wildly and waving my turban I managed to attract the attention of her crew.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	relief	relief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	sailing	sail	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
15	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
17	wildly	wildly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	waving	wave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	turban	turban	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	managed	manage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	attract	attract	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	crew	crew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | I | a ship |  |  |  | to my joy and relief | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ship=Stimulus |
| 2 | **sail** | gerund | a ship *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wildly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **wave** | gerund | I *not said here* | my turban |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turban=Patient |
| 5 | **manage** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **attract** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the attention of monster's crew |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Patient |
| 7 | **joy** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **attend** |  | monster's crew |  |  |  |  |  | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: of=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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