--- title: As may be supposed--continued the pilot--the mountain sides are very… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: As may be supposed--continued the pilot--the mountain sides are very rugged, but on the summit stands a brass dome supported on pillars, and bearing on top the figure of a brass horse, with a rider on his back. Who acts: mountain sides, brass dome. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» b --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/11/24/) [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/) / 24 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 24 As may be supposed--continued the pilot--the mountain sides are very rugged, but on the summit stands a brass dome supported on pillars, and bearing on top the figure of a brass horse, with a rider on his back. **Who acts:** mountain sides, brass dome · **What happens:** suppose, continue, be, stand, support, bear · **To what, where:** pilot, summit, brass dome, figure, top, brass horse 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 (mountain sides, brass dome), 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:pg128:11:24 # text = As may be supposed--continued the pilot--the mountain sides are very rugged, but on the summit stands a brass dome supported on pillars, and bearing on top the figure of a brass horse, with a rider on his back. 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 supposed suppose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 -- -- PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 continued continue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 pilot pilot NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 -- -- PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 very very ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 rugged rugged ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 summit summit NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 21 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 brass brass NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 dome dome NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 25 supported support VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 acl _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 pillars pillar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl:agent _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 bearing bear VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 figure figure NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 brass brass NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 with with ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 rider rider NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 43 on on ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **suppose** | may · passive | | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S» | | 2 | **continue** | past | | the pilot | | | | | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pilot=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | the mountain sides | | | | | rugged *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **stand** | present | a brass dome | | | the summit | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on summit=Location | | 5 | **support** | participle | | a brass dome *not said here* | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **bear** | gerund | | the figure of a brass horse | | top | | with a rider on dome's back | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent figure=Patient | | 7 | **figure** | | | a brass horse | | | | | nom figure «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/11/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/11/25/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/11/)