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title: I accepted the charge respectfully, and soon embarked upon the vesse… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I accepted the charge respectfully, and soon embarked upon the vessel which the king himself had chosen for me. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 17

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I accepted the charge respectfully, and soon embarked upon the vessel which the king himself had chosen for me.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** accept, embark, choose · **To what, where:** charge, king

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. 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:pg128:18:17
# text = I accepted the charge respectfully, and soon embarked upon the vessel which the king himself had chosen for me.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	accepted	accept	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	respectfully	respectfully	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
9	embarked	embark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
10	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accept** | past | I | the charge |  |  |  | respectfully *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme |
| 2 | **embark** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon the vessel; soon *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **choose** | past · perfect · passive |  | the king |  |  |  | for me | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary which=Theme |

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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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