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title: These I hired out to travelling merchants, whom I frequently accompa… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: These I hired out to travelling merchants, whom I frequently accompanied on their various journeys, and always returned with large profits. Who acts: These, I, merchants. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 32

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These I hired out to travelling merchants, whom I frequently accompanied on their various journeys, and always returned with large profits.

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**Who acts:** These, I, merchants · **What happens:** hire out, travel, accompany, return, journey · **To what, where:** various journeys

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (These, I, merchants), 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:pg128:33:32
# text = These I hired out to travelling merchants, whom I frequently accompanied on their various journeys, and always returned with large profits.
1	These	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hired	hire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	travelling	travel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	frequently	frequently	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	journeys	journey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	20	advmod	_	_
20	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	profits	profit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hire out** | past | These |  |  |  |  | to travelling merchants; out *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **travel** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **accompany** | past | I |  |  | merchants's various journeys |  | frequently *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on journey=Destination |
| 4 | **return** | participle | These *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with large profits; always *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **journey** |  | merchants *= merchant* |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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