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title: I am even surprised myself when I look back, but evidently it was my… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I am even surprised myself when I look back, but evidently it was my fate to rove, and after a year of repose I prepared to make a sixth voyage, regardless of the entreaties of my friends and relations, who did all they could to keep me at home. Who acts: I, voyage, friends, relations. A sentence of
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 35

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I am even surprised myself when I look back, but evidently it was my fate to rove, and after a year of repose I prepared to make a sixth voyage, regardless of the entreaties of my friends and relations, who did all they could to keep me at home.

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**Who acts:** I, voyage, friends, relations · **What happens:** surprise, look back, be, rove, prepare, make · **To what, where:** I, fate, sixth voyage, me, home

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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, voyage, friends, relations), 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:pg128:17:35
# text = I am even surprised myself when I look back, but evidently it was my fate to rove, and after a year of repose I prepared to make a sixth voyage, regardless of the entreaties of my friends and relations, who did all they could to keep me at home.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	even	even	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	surprised	surprise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	evidently	evidently	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	rove	rove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
21	after	after	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	repose	repose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	sixth	sixth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	regardless	regardless	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	entreaties	entreaty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	45	nsubj	_	_
45	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	acl:relcl	_	_
46	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	conj	_	_
47	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
48	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	50	mark	_	_
50	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	parataxis	_	_
51	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	50	obj	_	_
52	at	at	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **surprise** | present · passive |  | I |  |  |  | myself *obl:unmarked* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **look back** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** | past | voyage | my fate |  |  |  | evidently *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **rove** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **prepare** | past | I |  |  |  | year |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 6 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | a sixth voyage |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset voyage=Product |
| 7 | **do** | past | my friends and relations |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **keep** | could | relations *= relation* | me |  | home |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme at home=Location |

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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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