--- title: My love of trading, and the pleasure I took in anything that was new… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: My love of trading, and the pleasure I took in anything that was new and strange, made me set my affairs in order, and begin my journey through some of the Persian provinces, having first sent off stores of goods to await my coming in the different places I intended to visit. Who acts: I, love, me, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/15/81/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/15/) / 81 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 81 My love of trading, and the pleasure I took in anything that was new and strange, made me set my affairs in order, and begin my journey through some of the Persian provinces, having first sent off stores of goods to await my coming in the different places I intended to visit. **Who acts:** I, love, me, my · **What happens:** take in, be, make, set, begin, have · **To what, where:** pleasure, me, affairs, order, journey, some 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, love, me, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg128:15:81 # text = My love of trading, and the pleasure I took in anything that was new and strange, made me set my affairs in order, and begin my journey through some of the Persian provinces, having first sent off stores of goods to await my coming in the different places I intended to visit. 1 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 trading trading NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 pleasure pleasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 in in ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 2 conj _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 acl:relcl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 19 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 20 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 affairs affair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 begin begin VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ _ 29 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 through through ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 28 obl _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 Persian persian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 provinces province NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 39 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 40 advmod _ _ 40 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 amod _ _ 41 off off ADP RP _ 40 compound:prt _ _ 42 stores store NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 goods goods NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 42 nmod _ _ 45 to to PART TO _ 46 mark _ _ 46 await await VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 advcl _ _ 47 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 48 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 46 ccomp _ _ 49 in in ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 51 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 52 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 obl _ _ 53 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 54 nsubj _ _ 54 intended intend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 52 acl:relcl _ _ 55 to to PART TO _ 56 mark _ _ 56 visit visit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 54 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 57 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take in** | past | I | the pleasure *not said here* | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | | | | | | new *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | past | My love of trading | me | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **set** | infinitive | me *not said here* | my affairs | | order | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent affair=Theme in order=Destination | | 6 | **begin** | infinitive | My love of trading *not said here* | my journey | | some | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Eventuality | | 7 | **have** | gerund | My love of trading *not said here* | sent stores of goods | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent store=Patient | | 8 | **send off** | participle | | | | | | first *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **await** | to-infinitive | My love of trading *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **come** | gerund | my | | | the different places | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location | | 11 | **intend** | past | I | the different places *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 12 | **visit** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 13 | **love** | | My | trading | | | | | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent of=patient | | 14 | **journey** | | my | | | | | | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/15/80/) - next →: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/15/82/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/15/)