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title: At noon next day, as the pilot had foretold, we were so near to the… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: At noon next day, as the pilot had foretold, we were so near to the Black Mountain that we saw all the nails and iron fly out of the ships and dash themselves against the mountain with a horrible noise. Who acts: we, nails. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, p
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 27

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At noon next day, as the pilot had foretold, we were so near to the Black Mountain that we saw all the nails and iron fly out of the ships and dash themselves against the mountain with a horrible noise.

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**Who acts:** we, nails · **What happens:** foretell, be, see, fly out, dash · **To what, where:** Black Mountain, ships, nails

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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 (we, nails), 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:pg128:11:27
# text = At noon next day, as the pilot had foretold, we were so near to the Black Mountain that we saw all the nails and iron fly out of the ships and dash themselves against the mountain with a horrible noise.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	pilot	pilot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	foretold	foretell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	near	near	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
21	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	nails	nail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	fly	fly	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	dash	dash	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
35	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	34	obj	_	_
36	against	against	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **foretell** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  | day | as the pilot | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | we |  |  |  |  | to the Black Mountain; near *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | past | we | the Black Mountain |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 4 | **fly out** | present | all nails and iron | the ships |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ship=Theme |
| 5 | **dash** | present | all nails and iron *not said here* | nails *= nail* |  |  |  | against the mountain; with a horrible noise | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient with noise=Instrument |

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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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