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title: I stepped silently in and sat down, and the metal man pushed off, an… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I stepped silently in and sat down, and the metal man pushed off, and rowed without stopping for nine days, after which land appeared on the horizon. Who acts: I, metal man, land. 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 40

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I stepped silently in and sat down, and the metal man pushed off, and rowed without stopping for nine days, after which land appeared on the horizon.

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**Who acts:** I, metal man, land · **What happens:** step in, sit down, push off, row, stop, appear · **To what, where:** horizon

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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 (I, metal man, land), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg128:968`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg128:11:40
# text = I stepped silently in and sat down, and the metal man pushed off, and rowed without stopping for nine days, after which land appeared on the horizon.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stepped	step	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	silently	silently	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	down	down	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	off	off	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	rowed	row	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
18	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	stopping	stop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	advcl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	after	after	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obl	_	_
26	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	horizon	horizon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **step in** | past | I |  |  |  |  | silently *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sit down** | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **push off** | past | the metal man |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **row** | past | the metal man *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **stop** | gerund | the metal man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **appear** | past | land |  |  | the horizon | after nine days |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on horizon=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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