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title: When the ships at last arrived my master himself chose the one in wh… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: When the ships at last arrived my master himself chose the one in which I was to sail, and put on board for me a great store of choice provisions, also ivory in abundance, and all the costliest curiosities of the country, for which I could not thank him enough, and so we parted. Who acts: ships, mon
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 6

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When the ships at last arrived my master himself chose the one in which I was to sail, and put on board for me a great store of choice provisions, also ivory in abundance, and all the costliest curiosities of the country, for which I could not thank him enough, and so we parted.

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**Who acts:** ships, monsoon, I, costliest curiosities · **What happens:** arrive, choose, be, put, not thank, part · **To what, where:** master, one, great store, board, monsoon

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ships, monsoon, I, costliest curiosities), 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:pg128:19:6
# text = When the ships at last arrived my master himself chose the one in which I was to sail, and put on board for me a great store of choice provisions, also ivory in abundance, and all the costliest curiosities of the country, for which I could not thank him enough, and so we parted.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	nsubj	_	_
10	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obl	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	sail	sail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	store	store	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	provisions	provision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	also	also	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	ivory	ivory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	abundance	abundance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
39	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	42	det:predet	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	costliest	costly	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	42	amod	_	_
42	curiosities	curiosity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	59	nsubj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
47	for	for	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	52	obl	_	_
49	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
50	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
51	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	52	advmod	_	_
52	thank	thank	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	parataxis	_	_
53	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obj	_	_
54	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
57	so	so	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
58	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
59	parted	part	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | the ships at last | my master |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **choose** | past | monsoon | the one |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | I | the one *not said here* |  |  |  | in the one; sail *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **put** | participle | monsoon *not said here* | a great store of choice provisions |  | board |  | for me | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent store=Theme on board=Destination |
| 5 | **not** **thank** *speech: thank* | could | I |  | monsoon |  |  | for all costliest curiosities of the country; enough *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for which=Attribute |
| 6 | **part** | past | all costliest curiosities of the country |  |  |  |  |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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