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title: Even when I was safe on the other side I had a long distance to go o… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Even when I was safe on the other side I had a long distance to go on the mud and sand before I reached dry ground, and very tired I was, when far in front of me I caught sight of a castle of red copper, which, at first sight, I took to be a fire. Who acts: I, red copper. A sentence of «The Arabian 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 6

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Even when I was safe on the other side I had a long distance to go on the mud and sand before I reached dry ground, and very tired I was, when far in front of me I caught sight of a castle of red copper, which, at first sight, I took to be a fire.

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**Who acts:** I, red copper · **What happens:** be, have, go, reach, catch, sight · **To what, where:** other side, long distance, mud, dry ground, sight, fire

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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, red copper), 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:pg128:12:6
# text = Even when I was safe on the other side I had a long distance to go on the mud and sand before I reached dry ground, and very tired I was, when far in front of me I caught sight of a castle of red copper, which, at first sight, I took to be a fire.
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
25	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	very	very	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
31	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
34	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	35	advmod	_	_
35	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	41	advmod	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nmod	_	_
40	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
42	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
50	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	54	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
52	at	at	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	54	obl	_	_
54	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
56	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
57	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	conj	_	_
58	to	to	PART	TO	_	61	mark	_	_
59	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	61	cop	_	_
60	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | I |  |  | the other side |  | safe *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | I | a long distance |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distance=Patient |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | a long distance *not said here* |  | the mud and sand |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on mud=Location |
| 4 | **reach** | past | I | dry ground |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ground=Theme |
| 5 | **be** |  | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **catch** | past | I | sight of a castle of red copper and sight |  |  |  | far *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme |
| 8 | **sight** |  | red copper and sight |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **take** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | a fire |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 11 | **sight** |  |  | a castle of red copper and sight |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition 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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