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title: By this time my other companion and I were running for our lives to… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: By this time my other companion and I were running for our lives to some place where we might hope to be safe from this new horror, and seeing a tall tree we climbed up into it, having first provided ourselves with a store of fruit off the surrounding bushes. Who acts: other companion, we, seeing. A
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 39

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By this time my other companion and I were running for our lives to some place where we might hope to be safe from this new horror, and seeing a tall tree we climbed up into it, having first provided ourselves with a store of fruit off the surrounding bushes.

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**Who acts:** other companion, we, seeing · **What happens:** run, hope, be, see, climb up, have · **To what, where:** new horror, tall tree, hunger, ourselves · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other companion, we, seeing), 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:pg128:15:39
# text = By this time my other companion and I were running for our lives to some place where we might hope to be safe from this new horror, and seeing a tall tree we climbed up into it, having first provided ourselves with a store of fruit off the surrounding bushes.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	companion	companion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	conj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	advmod	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	hope	hope	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
23	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	ccomp	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
26	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	horror	horror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
30	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	42	csubj	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
36	up	up	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	into	into	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	conj	_	_
41	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	40	advmod	_	_
42	provided	provide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
43	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	42	obj	_	_
44	with	with	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	store	store	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
49	off	off	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	surrounding	surrounding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	_
52	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past · progressive | my other companion |  |  |  | time | for our lives; to some place *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to place=Result |
| 2 | **hope** | might | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  | this new horror |  | safe *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | gerund |  | a tall tree |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus |
| 5 | **climb up** | past | we | a tall tree *not said here* |  | hunger |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **have** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **provide** | past | seeing | ourselves |  |  |  | with a store of fruit; off the surrounding bushes | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent ourselves=Recipient with store=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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