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title: After my sixth voyage I was quite determined that I would go to sea… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: After my sixth voyage I was quite determined that I would go to sea no more. Who acts: I, my. 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 40

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After my sixth voyage I was quite determined that I would go to sea no more.

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**Who acts:** I, my · **What happens:** be, go, voyage · **To what, where:** sea

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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, my), 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:pg128:18:40
# text = After my sixth voyage I was quite determined that I would go to sea no more.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	sixth	sixth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	determined	determined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	no	no	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | I |  |  |  | after my sixth voyage | determined *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | would | I |  |  | sea |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sea=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **voyage** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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