--- title: However, I saw nothing strange upon my voyage, saving some fish that… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: However, I saw nothing strange upon my voyage, saving some fish that were full two hundred cubits long, but were fortunately more in dread of us than even we were of them, and fled from us if we did but strike upon a board to frighten them. Who acts: I, that, we, my. A sentence of «The Arabian Night --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/13/60/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/13/) / 60 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 60 However, I saw nothing strange upon my voyage, saving some fish that were full two hundred cubits long, but were fortunately more in dread of us than even we were of them, and fled from us if we did but strike upon a board to frighten them. **Who acts:** I, that, we, my · **What happens:** see, save, be, flee, do, strike · **To what, where:** nothing, fish, dread, board, us This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, that, we, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg128:13:60 # text = However, I saw nothing strange upon my voyage, saving some fish that were full two hundred cubits long, but were fortunately more in dread of us than even we were of them, and fled from us if we did but strike upon a board to frighten them. 1 However however ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 4 obj _ _ 6 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 7 upon upon ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 voyage voyage NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 saving save VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 12 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 13 det _ _ 13 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 15 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 17 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 compound _ _ 18 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 cubits cubit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl:unmarked _ _ 20 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 fortunately fortunately ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 obj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 dread dread NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nmod _ _ 30 than than ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 31 even even ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 32 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 fled flee VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 39 from from ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 obl _ _ 41 if if SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 42 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 advcl _ _ 44 but but CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 strike strike VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 conj _ _ 46 upon upon ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 board board NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 49 to to PART TO _ 50 mark _ _ 50 frighten frighten VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 advcl _ _ 51 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 50 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | I | nothing | | | | upon my voyage; however *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | | 2 | **save** | gerund | I *not said here* | some fish | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme | | 3 | **is** | past | that | | | | | full *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | past | | | | dread of us | | fortunately, more *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | past | we | | | | | than cubits *= cubit* | tree rules | | 6 | **flee** | past | | | | | | from us | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from we=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | we | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **strike** | infinitive | | | | a board | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon board=Location | | 9 | **frighten** | to-infinitive | | fish | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | | 10 | **voyage** | | my | | | | | | nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=agent | | 11 | **dread** | | | us | | | | | nom dread «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/13/59/) - next →: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/13/61/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/13/)