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title: Instead of going by the Persian Gulf, I travelled a considerable way… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Instead of going by the Persian Gulf, I travelled a considerable way overland, and finally embarked from a distant Indian port with a captain who meant to make a long voyage. Who acts: I, captain. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17, with its dependency
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 36

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Instead of going by the Persian Gulf, I travelled a considerable way overland, and finally embarked from a distant Indian port with a captain who meant to make a long voyage.

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**Who acts:** I, captain · **What happens:** go, travel, embark, mean, make · **To what, where:** considerable way, distant Indian port, long voyage

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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, captain), 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:pg128:17:36
# text = Instead of going by the Persian Gulf, I travelled a considerable way overland, and finally embarked from a distant Indian port with a captain who meant to make a long voyage.
1	Instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	3	mark	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Persian	Persian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Gulf	Gulf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	considerable	considerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	overland	overland	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	embarked	embark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the Persian Gulf | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by gulf=Location |
| 2 | **travel** | past | I | a considerable way |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory |
| 3 | **embark** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  | a distant Indian port with a captain |  | finally *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **mean** | past | a captain |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a captain *not said here* | a long voyage |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset voyage=Product |

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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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