--- title: I then made up many packages of rubies, emeralds, rock crystal, ambe… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: I then made up many packages of rubies, emeralds, rock crystal, ambergris, and precious stuffs, and bound them upon my raft, being careful to preserve the balance, and then I seated myself upon it, having two small oars that I had fashioned laid ready to my hand, and loosed the cord which held it to --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/17/56/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/17/) / 56 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 56 I then made up many packages of rubies, emeralds, rock crystal, ambergris, and precious stuffs, and bound them upon my raft, being careful to preserve the balance, and then I seated myself upon it, having two small oars that I had fashioned laid ready to my hand, and loosed the cord which held it to the bank. **Who acts:** I, cord · **What happens:** make up, bound, be, preserve, seat, have · **To what, where:** many packages, packages, balance, myself, two small oars, cord 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, cord), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg128:17:56 # text = I then made up many packages of rubies, emeralds, rock crystal, ambergris, and precious stuffs, and bound them upon my raft, being careful to preserve the balance, and then I seated myself upon it, having two small oars that I had fashioned laid ready to my hand, and loosed the cord which held it to the bank. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 3 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 packages package NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 rubies ruby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 emeralds emerald NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 crystal crystal NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 ambergris ambergris NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 precious precious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 stuffs stuff NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 bound bound VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 upon upon ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 raft raft NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 cop _ _ 29 careful careful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 conj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 preserve preserve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 balance balance NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 38 advmod _ _ 37 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 seated seat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 39 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 38 obj _ _ 40 upon upon ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 43 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 advcl _ _ 44 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 46 nummod _ _ 45 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 oars oar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obj _ _ 47 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 49 obj _ _ 48 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 49 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 acl:relcl _ _ 50 fashioned fashioned ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 obj _ _ 51 laid lay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 50 acl _ _ 52 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 xcomp _ _ 53 to to ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 54 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 55 nmod:poss _ _ 55 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 56 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 57 and and CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 58 loosed loose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 59 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 60 cord cord NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 obj _ _ 61 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 62 nsubj _ _ 62 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 60 acl:relcl _ _ 63 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 62 obj _ _ 64 to to ADP IN _ 66 case _ _ 65 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 66 det _ _ 66 bank bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 67 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make up** | past | I | many packages of rubies and emeralds | | | then | rock crystal and ambergris *obl*; precious stuffs *obl* | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme package=Pivot | | 2 | **bound** | infinitive | | packages *= package* | | | | upon my raft | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location they=Theme | | 3 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | careful *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **preserve** | to-infinitive | | the balance | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent balance=Beneficiary | | 5 | **seat** | past | I | myself | | | then | upon balance | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location myself=Value | | 6 | **have** | gerund | I *not said here* | two small oars | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oar=Patient | | 7 | **have** | past | I | two small oars | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **lay** | participle | | | | | | ready *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **loose** | past | I *not said here* | the cord | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cord=Patient | | 10 | **hold** | past | the cord | balance | | | | to the bank | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/17/55/) - next →: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/17/57/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/17/)