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title: I watched a little longer: there was no doubt about it, and soon the… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I watched a little longer: there was no doubt about it, and soon there was only a tiny stream for me to cross. Who acts: I, doubt, tiny stream, me. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 5

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I watched a little longer: there was no doubt about it, and soon there was only a tiny stream for me to cross.

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**Who acts:** I, doubt, tiny stream, me · **What happens:** watch, be, cross

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, doubt, tiny stream, me), 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:pg128:1020`): 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:pg128:12:5
# text = I watched a little longer: there was no doubt about it, and soon there was only a tiny stream for me to cross.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
11	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
18	only	only	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
22	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	cross	cross	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | past | I |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **be** | past | no doubt about thought |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **be** | past | a tiny stream |  |  | there |  | soon *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **cross** | to-infinitive | me |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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