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title: The captain accordingly sent his boat off to the ship and it soon re… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The captain accordingly sent his boat off to the ship and it soon returned laden with the fifty pots of olives. Who acts: captain. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 7

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The captain accordingly sent his boat off to the ship and it soon returned laden with the fifty pots of olives.

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**Who acts:** captain · **What happens:** send off, lade · **To what, where:** boat, ship

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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:pg128:27:7
# text = The captain accordingly sent his boat off to the ship and it soon returned laden with the fifty pots of olives.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	accordingly	accordingly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
14	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	laden	lade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	olives	olive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send off** | past | the captain | captain's boat |  | the ship |  | accordingly *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent boat=Theme to ship=Destination |
| 2 | **lade** | past · passive |  | boat |  |  |  | with the fifty pots of olives; soon *property* | tree rules |

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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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