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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 69

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I had looked out for two days, however, before a single sail appeared, so it was with much delight that I at last saw a vessel not very far from the shore, and by waving my arms and uttering loud cries succeeded in attracting the attention of her crew.

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**Who acts:** I, single sail, sail, much delight, waving, crew · **What happens:** look out, appear, be, see, wave, utter · **To what, where:** vessel, arms, loud cries, attention

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, single sail, sail, much delight), 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:pg128:16:69
# text = I had looked out for two days, however, before a single sail appeared, so it was with much delight that I at last saw a vessel not very far from the shore, and by waving my arms and uttering loud cries succeeded in attracting the attention of her crew.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	however	however	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	sail	sail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	obl	_	_
27	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
31	very	very	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
38	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
39	waving	wave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	46	csubj	_	_
40	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	uttering	utter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	39	conj	_	_
44	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	cries	cry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obj	_	_
46	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
47	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
48	attracting	attract	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	46	advcl	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	crew	crew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look out** | past · perfect | I |  |  |  | day | however *property* | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **appear** | past | a single sail |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | sail |  |  |  |  | with much delight | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | past | much delight | a vessel |  |  |  | far *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vessel=Stimulus |
| 5 | **wave** | gerund |  | my arms |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient |
| 6 | **utter** *speech: other* | gerund |  | loud cries |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cry=Topic |
| 7 | **succeed** | past | waving |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **attract** | gerund | waving *not said here* | the attention of place's crew |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Patient |
| 9 | **attend** |  | place's crew |  |  |  |  |  | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: of=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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