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title: A short time after we had opened our shops, my eldest brother, one o… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: A short time after we had opened our shops, my eldest brother, one of these two dogs, resolved to travel in foreign countries for the sake of merchandise. Who acts: short time. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 147

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A short time after we had opened our shops, my eldest brother, one of these two dogs, resolved to travel in foreign countries for the sake of merchandise.

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**Who acts:** short time · **What happens:** open, resolve, travel · **To what, where:** we, two dogs, foreign countries

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (short time), 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:pg128:2:147
# text = A short time after we had opened our shops, my eldest brother, one of these two dogs, resolved to travel in foreign countries for the sake of merchandise.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	travel	travel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	merchandise	merchandise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past · perfect · passive | a short time *not said here* | we |  |  |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme shop=Destination |
| 2 | **resolve** | participle |  | this two dogs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **travel** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | foreign countries |  | for the sake of merchandise | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Trajectory |

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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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