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title: This being done the sea will rise and cover the mountain, and on it… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: This being done the sea will rise and cover the mountain, and on it thou wilt perceive the figure of a metal man seated in a boat, having an oar in each hand. Who acts: sea, thou. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 36

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This being done the sea will rise and cover the mountain, and on it thou wilt perceive the figure of a metal man seated in a boat, having an oar in each hand.

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**Who acts:** sea, thou · **What happens:** do, rise, cover, perceive, seat, have · **To what, where:** This, mountain, figure, metal man, boat, oar

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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 (sea, 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:pg128:11:36
# text = This being done the sea will rise and cover the mountain, and on it thou wilt perceive the figure of a metal man seated in a boat, having an oar in each hand.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	cover	cover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
16	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nsubj	_	_
17	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	perceive	perceive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	oar	oar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	_
35	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | gerund · passive |  | This |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **rise** | future | the sea |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cover** | infinitive | the sea *not said here* | the mountain |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mountain=Destination |
| 4 | **perceive** | future | thou | the figure of a metal man |  | Mountain |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer figure=Stimulus |
| 5 | **seat** | participle |  | a metal man *not said here* |  | a boat |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in boat=Location |
| 6 | **have** | gerund | thou *not said here* | a oar |  | each hand |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oar=Patient |
| 7 | **figure** |  |  | a metal man |  |  |  |  | nom figure «communication 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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