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title: And, they added, when the statue of the brass horse on the top of th… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: And, they added, when the statue of the brass horse on the top of the mountain of adamant is thrown into the sea by Agib, the son of Cassib, then beware, for fifty days later your son shall fall by his hand! Who acts: slaves, Agib, son. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lan
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 68

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And, they added, when the statue of the brass horse on the top of the mountain of adamant is thrown into the sea by Agib, the son of Cassib, then beware, for fifty days later your son shall fall by his hand!

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**Who acts:** slaves, Agib, son · **What happens:** add, throw, beware, fall · **To what, where:** statue, sea

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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 (slaves, Agib, son), 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:pg128:11:68
# text = And, they added, when the statue of the brass horse on the top of the mountain of adamant is thrown into the sea by Agib, the son of Cassib, then beware, for fifty days later your son shall fall by his hand!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
6	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	22	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	statue	statue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	adamant	adamant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Agib	Agib	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Cassib	Cassib	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	35	advmod	_	_
35	beware	beware	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	_
39	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	_
40	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	44	advmod	_	_
41	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
43	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	conj	_	_
45	by	by	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | slaves *= slave* |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **throw** | present · passive | Agib | the statue of the brass horse on the top of the mountain of adamant |  |  |  | into the sea *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer subject=Theme into sea=Result |
| 3 | **beware** | infinitive | Agib *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **fall** | shall | your son |  |  |  | day | by Son's hand; late *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by hand=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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