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title: He belonged to Bagdad, and joined my ship at Balsora, but by mischan… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: He belonged to Bagdad, and joined my ship at Balsora, but by mischance he was left behind upon a desert island where we had landed to fill up our water-casks, and it was not until four hours later that he was missed. Who acts: captain, mischance, we. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments»
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 63

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He belonged to Bagdad, and joined my ship at Balsora, but by mischance he was left behind upon a desert island where we had landed to fill up our water-casks, and it was not until four hours later that he was missed.

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**Who acts:** captain, mischance, we · **What happens:** belong, join, leave behind, land, fill up, not miss · **To what, where:** Bagdad, ship, Balsora, captain, desert island, water casks

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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 (captain, mischance, we), 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:pg128:15:63
# text = He belonged to Bagdad, and joined my ship at Balsora, but by mischance he was left behind upon a desert island where we had landed to fill up our water-casks, and it was not until four hours later that he was missed.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Balsora	Balsora	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	mischance	mischance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
19	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
25	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	landed	land	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
32	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	casks	cask	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux:pass	_	_
39	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	47	advmod	_	_
40	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
41	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	42	nummod	_	_
42	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl:unmarked	_	_
43	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	47	advmod	_	_
44	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
46	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux:pass	_	_
47	missed	miss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belong** | past | captain |  | Bagdad |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **join** | past | captain *not said here* | my ship |  | Balsora |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Patient |
| 3 | **leave behind** | past · passive | mischance | captain |  | a desert island |  | behind *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme upon island=Location |
| 4 | **land** | past · perfect | we |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fill up** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | our water casks |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cask=Patient |
| 6 | **not** **miss** | past · passive |  | ship |  |  |  | late *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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