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title: I myself went down with the rest, but had the good fortune to rise u… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I myself went down with the rest, but had the good fortune to rise unhurt, and by holding on to a piece of driftwood with one hand and swimming with the other I kept myself afloat and was presently washed up by the tide on to an island. Who acts: I, tide. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainm
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 93

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I myself went down with the rest, but had the good fortune to rise unhurt, and by holding on to a piece of driftwood with one hand and swimming with the other I kept myself afloat and was presently washed up by the tide on to an island.

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**Who acts:** I, tide · **What happens:** go down, have, rise, hold on, keep, wash up · **To what, where:** good fortune, 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 (I, tide), 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:pg128:16:93
# text = I myself went down with the rest, but had the good fortune to rise unhurt, and by holding on to a piece of driftwood with one hand and swimming with the other I kept myself afloat and was presently washed up by the tide on to an island.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
16	unhurt	unhurt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
19	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	advcl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	driftwood	driftwood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	swimming	swimming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obl	_	_
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
37	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	36	obj	_	_
38	afloat	afloat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	xcomp	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux:pass	_	_
41	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	washed	wash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	conj	_	_
43	up	up	ADP	RP	_	42	compound:prt	_	_
44	by	by	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	tide	tide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
47	on	on	ADP	RP	_	42	compound:prt	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go down** | past | I |  |  |  |  | with the rest; down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **have** | past | I *not said here* | the good fortune |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Patient |
| 3 | **rise** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the good fortune *not said here* |  |  |  | unhurt *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hold on** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a piece of driftwood; with one hand and swimming; with the other | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **keep** | past | I | myself |  |  |  | afloat *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme |
| 6 | **wash up** | past · passive | the tide |  |  |  |  | to a island; presently *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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