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title: We had hardly time to draw a breath of relief before the other rock… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: We had hardly time to draw a breath of relief before the other rock fell with a mighty crash right in the midst of our luckless vessel, smashing it into a thousand fragments, and crushing, or hurling into the sea, passengers and crew. Who acts: We, other rock. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Enter
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 92

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We had hardly time to draw a breath of relief before the other rock fell with a mighty crash right in the midst of our luckless vessel, smashing it into a thousand fragments, and crushing, or hurling into the sea, passengers and crew.

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**Who acts:** We, other rock · **What happens:** have, draw, fall, smash, crush, hurl · **To what, where:** breath, midst, rock, thousand fragments, sea

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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, other rock), 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:pg128:16:92
# text = We had hardly time to draw a breath of relief before the other rock fell with a mighty crash right in the midst of our luckless vessel, smashing it into a thousand fragments, and crushing, or hurling into the sea, passengers and crew.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	draw	draw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	relief	relief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	crash	crash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	right	right	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	luckless	luckless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	smashing	smash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	fragments	fragment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	crushing	crush	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	hurling	hurl	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	advcl	_	_
41	into	into	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	passengers	passenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	conj	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	crew	crew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | We |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **draw** | to-infinitive | We *not said here* | a breath of relief |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | past | the other rock |  |  | the midst of our luckless vessel |  | with a mighty crash | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in midst=Location |
| 4 | **smash** | gerund | the other rock *not said here* | rock |  | thousand fragments |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme into fragment=Destination |
| 5 | **crush** | gerund | We *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **hurl** | gerund | We *not said here* |  |  | the sea and passengers and crew |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent into sea=Destination |

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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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