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title: This we did, and the sails were hoisted, but before we had made any… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: This we did, and the sails were hoisted, but before we had made any way the rocs reached their despoiled nest and hovered about it, uttering frightful cries when they discovered the mangled remains of their young one. Who acts: we, rocs, merchants. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» b
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 89

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This we did, and the sails were hoisted, but before we had made any way the rocs reached their despoiled nest and hovered about it, uttering frightful cries when they discovered the mangled remains of their young one.

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**Who acts:** we, rocs, merchants · **What happens:** do, hoist, make, reach, despoil, hover · **To what, where:** This, sails, way, despoiled nest, frightful cries, mangled remains

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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, rocs, merchants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg128:1405`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg128:16:89
# text = This we did, and the sails were hoisted, but before we had made any way the rocs reached their despoiled nest and hovered about it, uttering frightful cries when they discovered the mangled remains of their young one.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obj	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sails	sail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	hoisted	hoist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
12	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
16	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	rocs	roc	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	despoiled	despoil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	hovered	hover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
26	about	about	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	uttering	utter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
30	frightful	frightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	cries	cry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	34	advmod	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	discovered	discover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	mangled	mangle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	amod	_	_
37	remains	remains	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	34	obj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
40	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | we | This |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
| 2 | **hoist** | past · passive |  | the sails |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | past · perfect | we | any way |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Product |
| 4 | **reach** | past | the rocs | merchants's despoiled nest |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent nest=Theme |
| 5 | **despoil** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **hover** | past | the rocs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about roc | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about it=Location |
| 7 | **utter** *speech: other* | gerund | the rocs *not said here* | frightful cries |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cry=Topic |
| 8 | **discover** | past | merchants *= merchant* | the mangled remains of merchants's young one |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remains=Topic |
| 9 | **mangle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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