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title: Here we anchored, and one of the merchants, who had been very friend… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Here we anchored, and one of the merchants, who had been very friendly to me on the way, took me ashore with him and showed me a lodging set apart for strange merchants. Who acts: we, merchants. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17, with its dependency t
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 20

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Here we anchored, and one of the merchants, who had been very friendly to me on the way, took me ashore with him and showed me a lodging set apart for strange merchants.

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**Who acts:** we, merchants · **What happens:** anchor, be, take, show, set apart · **To what, where:** one, me, way, lodging

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, merchants), 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:pg128:17:20
# text = Here we anchored, and one of the merchants, who had been very friendly to me on the way, took me ashore with him and showed me a lodging set apart for strange merchants.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	anchored	anchor	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	cop	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	_
24	ashore	ashore	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	iobj	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	lodging	lodging	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	_
33	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **anchor** | past | we | one of the merchants |  | here |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past · perfect | the merchants |  | me | the way |  | friendly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | past | we *not said here* |  | me |  |  | with captain; ashore *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination |
| 4 | **show** | past | we *not said here* | a lodging | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient lodging=Topic |
| 5 | **set apart** | participle |  | a lodging *not said here* |  |  |  | for strange merchants; apart *property* | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for merchant=Beneficiary |

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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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