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title: In this same island we saw the rhinoceros, an animal which is smalle… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: In this same island we saw the rhinoceros, an animal which is smaller than the elephant and larger than the buffalo. Who acts: we, animal. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 56

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In this same island we saw the rhinoceros, an animal which is smaller than the elephant and larger than the buffalo.

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**Who acts:** we, animal · **What happens:** see, be · **To what, where:** rhinoceros, same island

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, animal), 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:pg128:1223`): 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:pg128:14:56
# text = In this same island we saw the rhinoceros, an animal which is smaller than the elephant and larger than the buffalo.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	rhinoceros	rhinoceros	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	conj	_	_
20	than	than	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | we | the rhinoceros |  | this same island |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rhinoceros=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | present | a animal |  |  |  |  | than the elephant; small *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | a animal *not said here* |  |  |  |  | than the buffalo | tree rules |

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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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