--- title: This mountain is composed of adamant, which attracts to itself all t… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: This mountain is composed of adamant, which attracts to itself all the iron and nails in your ship; and as we are helplessly drawn nearer, the force of attraction will become so great that the iron and nails will fall out of the ships and cling to the mountain, and the ships will sink to the bottom --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/11/22/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/11/) / 22 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 22 This mountain is composed of adamant, which attracts to itself all the iron and nails in your ship; and as we are helplessly drawn nearer, the force of attraction will become so great that the iron and nails will fall out of the ships and cling to the mountain, and the ships will sink to the bottom with all that are in them. **Who acts:** adamant, force, iron, ships, that · **What happens:** compose, attract, draw, become, fall, sink · **To what, where:** mountain, iron, we, ships This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (adamant, force, iron, ships), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg128:11:22 # text = This mountain is composed of adamant, which attracts to itself all the iron and nails in your ship; and as we are helplessly drawn nearer, the force of attraction will become so great that the iron and nails will fall out of the ships and cling to the mountain, and the ships will sink to the bottom with all that are in them. 1 This this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 det _ _ 2 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 composed compose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 adamant adamant NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 attracts attract VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 9 obl _ _ 12 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 14 det:predet _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 nails nail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 22 as as SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 23 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 25 helplessly helplessly ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 drawn draw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 advcl _ _ 27 nearer near ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 26 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 force force NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 attraction attraction NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 35 so so ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 xcomp _ _ 37 that that SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 nails nail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 conj _ _ 42 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 advcl _ _ 44 out out ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obl _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 49 cling cling NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 conj _ _ 50 to to ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 54 and and CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 55 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 56 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 58 nsubj _ _ 57 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 58 aux _ _ 58 sink sink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 59 to to ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 60 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 61 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 obl _ _ 62 with with ADP IN _ 67 case _ _ 63 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 67 det:predet _ _ 64 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 67 nsubj _ _ 65 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 67 cop _ _ 66 in in ADP IN _ 67 case _ _ 67 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 58 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 68 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **compose** | present · passive | | this mountain | | | | of adamant | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | | 2 | **attract** | present | adamant | all iron and nails in your ship | Mountain | | | | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to itself=Result | | 3 | **draw** | present · passive | | we | | | | helplessly, near *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **become** | future | the force of attraction | | | | | great *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **fall** | future | the iron and nails | | | the ships and cling to the mountain | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out ship=Location | | 6 | **sink** | future | the ships | | | | | to the bottom | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **is** | present | that | | | | | with iron | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/11/21/) - next →: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/11/23/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/11/)