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title: We bought merchandise, loaded a vessel with it, and set forth with a… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: We bought merchandise, loaded a vessel with it, and set forth with a favorable wind. Who acts: We. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 19

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We bought merchandise, loaded a vessel with it, and set forth with a favorable wind.

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**Who acts:** We · **What happens:** buy, load, set · **To what, where:** merchandise, vessel

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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:pg128:3:19
# text = We bought merchandise, loaded a vessel with it, and set forth with a favorable wind.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bought	buy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	merchandise	merchandise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	loaded	load	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
13	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	favorable	favorable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | past | We | merchandise |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merchandise=Theme |
| 2 | **load** | past | We *not said here* | a vessel |  |  |  | with merchandise | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent vessel=Destination with it=Theme |
| 3 | **set** | infinitive | We *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a favorable wind; forth *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with wind=Instrument |

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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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