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title: I followed it for what seemed to me many miles, and at last saw befo… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I followed it for what seemed to me many miles, and at last saw before me a glimmer of light which grew clearer every moment until I emerged upon the sea shore with a joy which I cannot describe. Who acts: I, glimmer, light. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 63

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I followed it for what seemed to me many miles, and at last saw before me a glimmer of light which grew clearer every moment until I emerged upon the sea shore with a joy which I cannot describe.

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**Who acts:** I, glimmer, light · **What happens:** follow, seem, grow, emerge, not describe, glimmer · **To what, where:** way, many miles, me, last saw, sea shore, joy

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, glimmer, light), 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:pg128:16:63
# text = I followed it for what seemed to me many miles, and at last saw before me a glimmer of light which grew clearer every moment until I emerged upon the sea shore with a joy which I cannot describe.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	obl	_	_
6	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	saw	saw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
16	before	before	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	glimmer	glimmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
24	clearer	clear	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	xcomp	_	_
25	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	emerged	emerge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
30	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	obj	_	_
38	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
39	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
41	describe	describe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | I | way |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Theme for what=Attribute |
| 2 | **seem** | past |  | many miles | me |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mile=Attribute |
| 3 | **grow** | past | a glimmer of light |  |  | last saw before me |  | clear *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at saw=Location |
| 4 | **emerge** | past | I |  |  | the sea shore with a joy |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon shore=Location |
| 5 | **not** **describe** | can | I | a joy |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 6 | **glimmer** |  | light |  |  |  |  |  | nom glimmer «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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