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title: There appeared a vast multitude of hideous savages, not more than tw… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: There appeared a vast multitude of hideous savages, not more than two feet high and covered with reddish fur. 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 75

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There appeared a vast multitude of hideous savages, not more than two feet high and covered with reddish fur.

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**What happens:** appear, cover · **To what, where:** vast multitude

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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: 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:pg128:14:75
# text = There appeared a vast multitude of hideous savages, not more than two feet high and covered with reddish fur.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	multitude	multitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	hideous	hideous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	savages	savage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	13	advmod	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	reddish	reddish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past |  | a vast multitude of hideous savages |  | there |  | high *obl* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location multitude=Theme |
| 2 | **cover** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with reddish fur | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with fur=Theme |

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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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