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title: When, after a rapid passage, he gained sight of the Island of Idolat… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: When, after a rapid passage, he gained sight of the Island of Idolaters, he judged it better not to enter the harbour, but casting anchor at some distance he embarked at night in a small boat with six active sailors and landed near Camaralzaman's cottage. Who acts: captain. A sentence of «The Arabia
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 29

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When, after a rapid passage, he gained sight of the Island of Idolaters, he judged it better not to enter the harbour, but casting anchor at some distance he embarked at night in a small boat with six active sailors and landed near Camaralzaman's cottage.

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**Who acts:** captain · **What happens:** gain, judge, not enter, cast, embark, land · **To what, where:** sight, harbour, anchor, small boat, cottage, Island

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (captain), 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:pg128:27:29
# text = When, after a rapid passage, he gained sight of the Island of Idolaters, he judged it better not to enter the harbour, but casting anchor at some distance he embarked at night in a small boat with six active sailors and landed near Camaralzaman's cottage.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	rapid	rapid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	gained	gain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Idolaters	Idolater	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	judged	judge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	harbour	harbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
28	casting	cast	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	csubj	_	_
29	anchor	anchor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	det	_	_
32	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	embarked	embark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
35	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	44	nummod	_	_
43	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	landed	land	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
47	near	near	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	Camaralzaman	Camaralzaman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	's	's	PART	POS	_	48	case	_	_
50	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gain** | past | captain | sight of the Island of Idolaters |  |  | after a rapid passage |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme |
| 2 | **judge** | past | captain | sight |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent it=Value |
| 3 | **not** **enter** | to-infinitive | captain *not said here* | the harbour |  |  |  | well *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme harbour=Destination |
| 4 | **cast** | gerund |  | anchor |  |  |  | at some distance | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent anchor=Theme at distance=Destination |
| 5 | **embark** | past | captain |  |  | a small boat | night | with six active sailors | tree rules |
| 6 | **land** | past | captain *not said here* |  |  | Camaralzaman's cottage |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **sight** |  |  | the Island of Idolaters |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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