--- title: Our journey was long and tedious, but I bore it patiently, reflectin… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: Our journey was long and tedious, but I bore it patiently, reflecting that at least I had not to fear tempests, nor pirates, nor serpents, nor any of the other perils from which I had suffered before, and at length we reached Bagdad. Who acts: journey, I, any, Our. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/19/8/) [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 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/19/) / 8 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 8 Our journey was long and tedious, but I bore it patiently, reflecting that at least I had not to fear tempests, nor pirates, nor serpents, nor any of the other perils from which I had suffered before, and at length we reached Bagdad. **Who acts:** journey, I, any, Our · **What happens:** be, bear, reflect, not fear, suffer, reach · **To what, where:** journey, tempests, least, other perils, Bagdad, length 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 (journey, I, any, Our), 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:pg128:19:8 # text = Our journey was long and tedious, but I bore it patiently, reflecting that at least I had not to fear tempests, nor pirates, nor serpents, nor any of the other perils from which I had suffered before, and at length we reached Bagdad. 1 Our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 tedious tedious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 bore bear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 patiently patiently ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 reflecting reflect VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 advcl _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 22 obl _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 19 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 fear fear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 23 tempests tempest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 26 cc _ _ 26 pirates pirate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 29 cc _ _ 29 serpents serpent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 31 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 48 cc _ _ 32 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 48 nsubj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 perils peril NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ _ 37 from from ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 obl _ _ 39 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 suffered suffer VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 36 acl:relcl _ _ 42 before before ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 45 at at ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ _ 47 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 48 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 49 Bagdad Bagdad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Our journey | | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | Our journey *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **bear** | past | I | journey | | | | serpents *obl*; patiently *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 4 | **reflect** | gerund | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **fear** | past | I | tempests nor pirates | | least | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tempest=Stimulus | | 6 | **suffer** | past · perfect | I | | | the other perils | | before *property* | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **reach** | past | any | Bagdad | | length | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent bagdad=Theme at length=Asset | | 8 | **journey** | | Our | | | | | | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/19/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/19/9/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/19/)