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title: But in a moment the serpent had become an eagle more powerful still,… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: But in a moment the serpent had become an eagle more powerful still, who soared up in the air and after him, and then we lost sight of them both. Who acts: serpent, we. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 81

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But in a moment the serpent had become an eagle more powerful still, who soared up in the air and after him, and then we lost sight of them both.

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**Who acts:** serpent, we · **What happens:** become, soar up, lose, sight · **To what, where:** sight, pieces

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (serpent, 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:pg128:10:81
# text = But in a moment the serpent had become an eagle more powerful still, who soared up in the air and after him, and then we lost sight of them both.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
12	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
13	still	still	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	soared	soar	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	after	after	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
27	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
29	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nmod	_	_
32	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past · perfect | the serpent |  |  |  | moment | powerful *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **soar up** | past |  |  |  |  |  | in the air | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in air=Attribute |
| 3 | **lose** | past | we | sight of pieces |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sight** |  |  | pieces *= piece* |  |  |  |  | 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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