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description: When they had despoiled us of all we possessed, they forced us to put on vile raiment, and sailing to a distant island there sold us for slaves. Who acts: prisoners, we, us, sailing. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 66

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When they had despoiled us of all we possessed, they forced us to put on vile raiment, and sailing to a distant island there sold us for slaves.

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**Who acts:** prisoners, we, us, sailing · **What happens:** despoil, possess, force, put on, sail, sell · **To what, where:** us, vile raiment, distant island

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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 (prisoners, we, us, sailing), 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:pg128:18:66
# text = When they had despoiled us of all we possessed, they forced us to put on vile raiment, and sailing to a distant island there sold us for slaves.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	despoiled	despoil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
5	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
8	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	possessed	possess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	forced	force	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
13	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	vile	vile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	raiment	raiment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
21	sailing	sail	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	csubj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
27	sold	sell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
28	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **despoil** | past · perfect | prisoners *= prisoner* |  | us |  |  | of all | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent we=Source of all=Theme |
| 2 | **possess** | past | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **force** | past | prisoners *= prisoner* | us |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **put on** | to-infinitive | us *not said here* | vile raiment |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent raiment=Goal |
| 5 | **sail** | gerund |  |  |  | a distant island; there |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to island=Trajectory |
| 6 | **sell** | past | sailing | us |  |  |  | for slaves | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent we=Theme for slave=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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