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title: Rich and happy as I was after my third voyage, I could not make up m… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Rich and happy as I was after my third voyage, I could not make up my mind to stay at home altogether. 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 80

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Rich and happy as I was after my third voyage, I could not make up my mind to stay at home altogether.

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**Who acts:** I, my · **What happens:** be, not make up, stay, mind · **To what, where:** mind, home

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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:pg128:15:80
# text = Rich and happy as I was after my third voyage, I could not make up my mind to stay at home altogether.
1	Rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	csubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
10	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | I |  |  |  | after my third voyage |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **make up** | could | I | my mind |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot |
| 3 | **stay** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  | home |  | altogether *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location |
| 4 | **mind** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition 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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