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title: This island and all adjoining it are inhabited by hairy savages, who… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: This island and all adjoining it are inhabited by hairy savages, who are certain to attack us, and whatever these dwarfs may do we dare not resist, since they swarm like locusts, and if one of them is killed the rest will fall upon us, and speedily make an end of us." Who acts: hairy savages, dwarfs
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 73

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This island and all adjoining it are inhabited by hairy savages, who are certain to attack us, and whatever these dwarfs may do we dare not resist, since they swarm like locusts, and if one of them is killed the rest will fall upon us, and speedily make an end of us."

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**Who acts:** hairy savages, dwarfs, rest · **What happens:** adjoin, inhabit, be, attack, do, not dare · **To what, where:** island, us, whatever, one, end

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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 (hairy savages, dwarfs, rest), 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:pg128:14:73
# text = This island and all adjoining it are inhabited by hairy savages, who are certain to attack us, and whatever these dwarfs may do we dare not resist, since they swarm like locusts, and if one of them is killed the rest will fall upon us, and speedily make an end of us."
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	adjoining	adjoin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	inhabited	inhabit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	hairy	hairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	savages	savage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	attack	attack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
18	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	obj	_	_
22	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
26	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	dare	dare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
29	resist	resist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	swarm	swarm	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
34	like	like	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	locusts	locust	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
38	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
39	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nmod	_	_
42	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
46	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	ccomp	_	_
48	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
52	speedily	speedily	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
53	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
54	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	55	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	53	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **adjoin** | gerund | hairy savages *not said here* | island |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **inhabit** | present · passive | hairy savages | this island |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | hairy savages |  |  |  |  | certain *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **attack** | to-infinitive | hairy savages *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient |
| 5 | **do** | may | this dwarfs | whatever |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **dare** | infinitive | this dwarfs *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **not** **resist** | infinitive | this dwarfs *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **swarm** | present | dwarfs *= dwarf* |  |  |  |  | like locusts | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **kill** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | one of dwarfs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **fall** | future | the rest |  |  |  |  | upon us | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon we=Location |
| 11 | **make** | infinitive |  | a end of us |  |  |  | speedily *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset end=Product |

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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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