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title: Whilst the prince was settling down to this second year of toil and… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Whilst the prince was settling down to this second year of toil and privation, the ship made a rapid voyage and arrived safely at the Ebony Island. Who acts: prince, ship. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 95

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Whilst the prince was settling down to this second year of toil and privation, the ship made a rapid voyage and arrived safely at the Ebony Island.

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**Who acts:** prince, ship · **What happens:** settle down, make, arrive · **To what, where:** rapid voyage, Ebony Island

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, ship), 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:pg128:26:95
# text = Whilst the prince was settling down to this second year of toil and privation, the ship made a rapid voyage and arrived safely at the Ebony Island.
1	Whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	settling	settle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
10	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	toil	toil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	privation	privation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	rapid	rapid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
24	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Ebony	Ebony	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **settle down** | past · progressive | the prince |  |  |  | year | down *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | past | the ship | a rapid voyage |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material voyage=Product |
| 3 | **arrive** | past | the ship *not said here* |  |  | the Ebony Island |  | safely *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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