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title: We determined, however, to explore it, but had not gone far when we… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: We determined, however, to explore it, but had not gone far when we found a roc's egg, as large as the one I had seen before and evidently very nearly hatched, for the beak of the young bird had already pierced the shell. Who acts: We, I, beak. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by An
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 84

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We determined, however, to explore it, but had not gone far when we found a roc's egg, as large as the one I had seen before and evidently very nearly hatched, for the beak of the young bird had already pierced the shell.

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**Who acts:** We, I, beak · **What happens:** determine, explore, not go, find, see, hatch · **To what, where:** island, egg, shell

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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 (We, I, beak), 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:pg128:16:84
# text = We determined, however, to explore it, but had not gone far when we found a roc's egg, as large as the one I had seen before and evidently very nearly hatched, for the beak of the young bird had already pierced the shell.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	determined	determine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	explore	explore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
14	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	roc	roc	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	as	as	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	parataxis	_	_
31	before	before	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	evidently	evidently	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
34	very	very	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	hatched	hatch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	beak	beak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
45	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
46	already	already	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	pierced	pierce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	40	acl:relcl	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | past | We |  |  |  |  | however *property* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **explore** | to-infinitive | We *not said here* | island |  |  |  |  | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location |
| 3 | **not** **go** | past · perfect | We *not said here* |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | past | we | a roc's egg |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Topic |
| 5 | **see** | past · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | as the one; before *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as one=Attribute |
| 6 | **hatch** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the beak; evidently, nearly *property* | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **pierce** | past · perfect | the beak *not said here* | the shell |  |  |  | of the young bird | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Patient |

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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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