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title: I decided at any rate to risk it, and speedily built myself a stout… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I decided at any rate to risk it, and speedily built myself a stout raft of drift-wood with strong cords, of which enough and to spare lay strewn upon the beach. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 55

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I decided at any rate to risk it, and speedily built myself a stout raft of drift-wood with strong cords, of which enough and to spare lay strewn upon the beach.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** decide, risk, build, spare · **To what, where:** rate, myself, strewn

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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), 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:pg128:17:55
# text = I decided at any rate to risk it, and speedily built myself a stout raft of drift-wood with strong cords, of which enough and to spare lay strewn upon the beach.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	risk	risk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	speedily	speedily	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	stout	stout	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	raft	raft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	drift	drift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	cords	cord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obl	_	_
27	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	spare	spare	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
31	lay	lay	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	32	advmod	_	_
32	strewn	strewn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	obj	_	_
33	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decide** | past | I |  |  | any rate |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **risk** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | rate |  |  |  |  | vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Pivot |
| 3 | **build** | past | I *not said here* | myself |  |  |  | with strong cords; enough, speedily *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset myself=Beneficiary raft=Product |
| 4 | **spare** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | strewn |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent strewn=Asset |

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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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