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title: Here I exchanged my nuts for pepper and good aloes wood, and went a-… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Here I exchanged my nuts for pepper and good aloes wood, and went a-fishing for pearls with some of the other merchants, and my divers were so lucky that very soon I had an immense number, and those very large and perfect. Who acts: I, divers. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by And
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 30

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Here I exchanged my nuts for pepper and good aloes wood, and went a-fishing for pearls with some of the other merchants, and my divers were so lucky that very soon I had an immense number, and those very large and perfect.

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**Who acts:** I, divers · **What happens:** exchange, go, be, have · **To what, where:** nuts, fishing, immense number

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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 (I, divers), 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:pg128:17:30
# text = Here I exchanged my nuts for pepper and good aloes wood, and went a-fishing for pearls with some of the other merchants, and my divers were so lucky that very soon I had an immense number, and those very large and perfect.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	exchanged	exchange	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	pepper	pepper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	aloes	aloe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	compound	_	_
11	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	divers	diver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	lucky	lucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
34	very	very	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	37	advmod	_	_
36	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
38	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	immense	immense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	obl	_	_
44	very	very	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exchange** | past | I | my nuts |  | here |  | for pepper and good aloes wood; those *obl* | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent nut=Theme for pepper=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past |  | a fishing |  |  |  | for pearls with some | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fishing=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | my divers |  |  |  |  | lucky *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | past | I | a immense number |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient |

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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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