--- title: Once on board, I soon saw that the captain was too much occupied wit… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: Once on board, I soon saw that the captain was too much occupied with the difficulties of navigation to pay much heed to me, though he generously made me welcome, and would not even accept the jewels with which I offered to pay my passage. Who acts: I, captain, road, my. A sentence of «The Arabian N --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/16/72/) [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 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/16/) / 72 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 72 Once on board, I soon saw that the captain was too much occupied with the difficulties of navigation to pay much heed to me, though he generously made me welcome, and would not even accept the jewels with which I offered to pay my passage. **Who acts:** I, captain, road, my · **What happens:** see, be, pay, make, not accept, offer · **To what, where:** board, much heed, me, jewels, passage 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, captain, road, 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:pg128:16:72 # text = Once on board, I soon saw that the captain was too much occupied with the difficulties of navigation to pay much heed to me, though he generously made me welcome, and would not even accept the jewels with which I offered to pay my passage. 1 Once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 7 advmod _ _ 2 on on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 board board NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ _ 7 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 captain captain NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 12 too too ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 occupied occupied ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 advcl _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 difficulties difficulty NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 navigation navigation NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 22 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 heed heed NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 though though SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 generously generously ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 31 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 welcome welcome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 35 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 36 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 38 advmod _ _ 37 even even ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 accept accept VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 jewels jewel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ _ 41 with with ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 44 obl _ _ 43 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 offered offer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 acl:relcl _ _ 45 to to PART TO _ 46 mark _ _ 46 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 xcomp _ _ 47 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 passage passage NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | I | | | board | | once, soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is** | past | the captain | | | | | with the difficulties of navigation; occupied *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **pay** | to-infinitive | the captain *not said here* | much heed | me | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset | | 4 | **make** | past | road | me | | | | generously, welcome *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Product | | 5 | **not** **accept** | would | I *not said here* | the jewels | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewel=Theme | | 6 | **offer** | past | I | | | | | with the jewels | tree rules | | 7 | **pay** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | my passage | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passage=Asset | | 8 | **pass** | | my | | | | | | nom passage «act intransitive»: 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 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/16/71/) - next →: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/16/73/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/16/)