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title: Luckily for me they believed my story, and without even looking at t… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Luckily for me they believed my story, and without even looking at the place where they found me, took up my bundles, and rowed me back to the ship. Who acts: me, bales. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 71

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Luckily for me they believed my story, and without even looking at the place where they found me, took up my bundles, and rowed me back to the ship.

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**Who acts:** me, bales · **What happens:** believe, look, find, take up, row back · **To what, where:** story, me, bundles, ship

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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 (me, bales), 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:pg128:16:71
# text = Luckily for me they believed my story, and without even looking at the place where they found me, took up my bundles, and rowed me back to the ship.
1	Luckily	luckily	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	believed	believe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
10	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	even	even	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
21	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	bundles	bundle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	rowed	row	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	back	back	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | past | me | my story |  |  |  | luckily *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus |
| 2 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | at the place | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at place=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | past | bales *= bale* | me |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Topic |
| 4 | **take up** | past | me *not said here* | my bundles |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme |
| 5 | **row back** | past | me *not said here* | me |  | the ship |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme to ship=Trajectory |

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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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