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description: One day he and several of my other passengers landed upon what we supposed to be an island, but which was really an enormous whale floating asleep upon the waves. Who acts: captain, we, enormous whale. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13, with its depen
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 66

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One day he and several of my other passengers landed upon what we supposed to be an island, but which was really an enormous whale floating asleep upon the waves.

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**Who acts:** captain, we, enormous whale · **What happens:** land, suppose, be, float · **To what, where:** island, enormous whale, waves

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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 (captain, we, enormous whale), 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:pg128:13:66
# text = One day he and several of my other passengers landed upon what we supposed to be an island, but which was really an enormous whale floating asleep upon the waves.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
5	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	passengers	passenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
10	landed	land	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
23	really	really	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
27	floating	float	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
28	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
29	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **land** | past | captain |  |  |  | day |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **suppose** | past | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | a island |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | a enormous whale |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **float** | gerund | a enormous whale *not said here* |  |  | the waves |  | asleep *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon wave=Trajectory |

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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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