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title: After two months' sailing we arrived at a seaport, where we disembar… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: After two months' sailing we arrived at a seaport, where we disembarked and did a great trade. 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 20

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After two months' sailing we arrived at a seaport, where we disembarked and did a great trade.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** sail, arrive, disembark, do · **To what, where:** seaport, great trade

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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:pg128:3:20
# text = After two months' sailing we arrived at a seaport, where we disembarked and did a great trade.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	sailing	sail	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
6	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	seaport	seaport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	disembarked	disembark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail** | gerund | we *not said here* |  |  |  | month |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **arrive** | past | we |  |  | a seaport |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **disembark** | past | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | past | we *not said here* | a great trade |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trade=Eventuality |

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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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