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title: So by degrees we came back to Balsora, and I returned to Bagdad with… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: So by degrees we came back to Balsora, and I returned to Bagdad with so much money that I could not myself count it, besides treasures without end. Who acts: we, I, much money. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 76

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So by degrees we came back to Balsora, and I returned to Bagdad with so much money that I could not myself count it, besides treasures without end.

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**Who acts:** we, I, much money · **What happens:** come back, return, not count · **To what, where:** Balsora, Bagdad, money

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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, much money), 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:pg128:15:76
# text = So by degrees we came back to Balsora, and I returned to Bagdad with so much money that I could not myself count it, besides treasures without end.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Balsora	Balsora	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	nsubj	_	_
24	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl:relcl	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	besides	besides	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
29	without	without	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** | past | we |  |  | Balsora |  | by degrees | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to balsora=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **return** | past | I |  | Bagdad |  |  | with much money | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to bagdad=Result |
| 3 | **not** **count** | could | much money | money |  |  | without end |  | tree rules |

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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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