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title: Shoot the arrows at the statue, and the rider shall tumble into the… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Shoot the arrows at the statue, and the rider shall tumble into the sea, but the horse will fall down by thy side, and thou shalt bury him in the place from which thou tookest the bow and arrows. Who acts: you, rider, horse, thou. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Ope
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 35

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Shoot the arrows at the statue, and the rider shall tumble into the sea, but the horse will fall down by thy side, and thou shalt bury him in the place from which thou tookest the bow and arrows.

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**Who acts:** you, rider, horse, thou · **What happens:** shoot, tumble, fall down, bury, take · **To what, where:** arrows, statue, sea, horse, place, bow

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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 (you, rider, horse, thou), 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:pg128:11:35
# text = Shoot the arrows at the statue, and the rider shall tumble into the sea, but the horse will fall down by thy side, and thou shalt bury him in the place from which thou tookest the bow and arrows.
1	Shoot	shoot	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	statue	statue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	rider	rider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	tumble	tumble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
22	down	down	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	30	nsubj	_	_
29	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	bury	bury	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	obl	_	_
37	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	38	nsubj	_	_
38	tookest	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shoot** | imperative | you *not said here* | the arrows |  | the statue |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme at statue=Destination |
| 2 | **tumble** | shall | the rider |  |  | the sea |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into sea=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **fall down** | future | the horse |  |  |  |  | by thy side | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by side=Location |
| 4 | **bury** | shall | thou | horse |  | the place |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in place=Destination |
| 5 | **take** | past | thou | the bow and arrows |  | the place |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent bow=Theme from which=Initial\_Location |

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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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