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title: I gave largely to the poor, and bought much land to add to what I al… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I gave largely to the poor, and bought much land to add to what I already possessed, and thus ended my third voyage. Who acts: I, my. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 77

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I gave largely to the poor, and bought much land to add to what I already possessed, and thus ended my third voyage.

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**Who acts:** I, my · **What happens:** give, buy, add, possess, end, voyage · **To what, where:** poor, much land, third voyage

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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, my), 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:pg128:15:77
# text = I gave largely to the poor, and bought much land to add to what I already possessed, and thus ended my third voyage.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	bought	buy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	obl	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	already	already	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	possessed	possess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	25	amod	_	_
25	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | I |  | the poor |  |  | largely *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to poor=Recipient |
| 2 | **buy** | past | I *not said here* | much land |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to what=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **possess** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **end** | past | I *not said here* | my third voyage |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality voyage=Eventuality |
| 6 | **voyage** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=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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