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title: Our voyage was prosperous, and after visiting many lands, and collec… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Our voyage was prosperous, and after visiting many lands, and collecting in each place great store of goodly merchandise, I found myself at last in Bagdad once more with unheard of riches of every description. Who acts: voyage, I, Our. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 73

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Our voyage was prosperous, and after visiting many lands, and collecting in each place great store of goodly merchandise, I found myself at last in Bagdad once more with unheard of riches of every description.

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**Who acts:** voyage, I, Our · **What happens:** be, visit, collect, find, voyage · **To what, where:** many lands, great store, place, myself

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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 (voyage, I, Our), 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:pg128:16:73
# text = Our voyage was prosperous, and after visiting many lands, and collecting in each place great store of goodly merchandise, I found myself at last in Bagdad once more with unheard of riches of every description.
1	Our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	prosperous	prosperous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	visiting	visit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	collecting	collect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	store	store	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	goodly	goodly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	merchandise	merchandise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
25	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	obj	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
30	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	31	advmod	_	_
31	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	33	advmod	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	unheard	unheard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	det	_	_
38	description	description	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Our voyage |  |  |  |  | prosperous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **visit** | gerund |  | many lands |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **collect** | gerund |  | great store of goodly merchandise |  | each place |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent store=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | past | I | myself |  |  |  | last, unheard *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Topic |
| 5 | **voyage** |  | Our |  |  |  |  |  | nom voyage «act 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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