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title: After sailing about for some time and touching at many ports we came… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: After sailing about for some time and touching at many ports we came at last to the island of Salahat, where sandal wood grows in great abundance. Who acts: we, sandal wood. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 50

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After sailing about for some time and touching at many ports we came at last to the island of Salahat, where sandal wood grows in great abundance.

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**Who acts:** we, sandal wood · **What happens:** sail, touch, come, grow · **To what, where:** many ports, last, great abundance

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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 (we, sandal wood), 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:pg128:15:50
# text = After sailing about for some time and touching at many ports we came at last to the island of Salahat, where sandal wood grows in great abundance.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	sailing	sail	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	ports	port	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Salahat	Salahat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	25	advmod	_	_
23	sandal	sandal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	abundance	abundance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail** | gerund |  |  |  |  | time | about *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **touch** | gerund |  |  |  | many ports |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | we | many ports *not said here* |  | last |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location port=Theme |
| 4 | **grow** | present | sandal wood |  |  | great abundance |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in abundance=Location |

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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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