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title: Here we anchored, and as I stood watching the merchants disembarking… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Here we anchored, and as I stood watching the merchants disembarking their goods and preparing to sell or exchange them, the captain came up to me and said, Who acts: we, I, merchants, captain. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tr
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 51

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Here we anchored, and as I stood watching the merchants disembarking their goods and preparing to sell or exchange them, the captain came up to me and said,

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**Who acts:** we, I, merchants, captain · **What happens:** anchor, stand, watch, disembark, prepare, sell · **To what, where:** merchants, goods, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, I, merchants, captain), 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:pg128:15:51
# text = Here we anchored, and as I stood watching the merchants disembarking their goods and preparing to sell or exchange them, the captain came up to me and said,
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	anchored	anchor	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	disembarking	disembark	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	preparing	prepare	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	exchange	exchange	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	up	up	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **anchor** | past | we |  |  | here |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **stand** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **watch** | gerund | I *not said here* | the merchants |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merchant=Theme |
| 4 | **disembark** | gerund | the merchants *not said here* | merchants's goods |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme goods=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **prepare** | gerund | the merchants *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 6 | **sell** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the merchants *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **exchange** | infinitive | the merchants *not said here* | merchants *= merchant* |  |  |  |  | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 8 | **come up** | past | the captain |  | me |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial\_Location |
| 9 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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