--- title: Here, then, upon this desolate shore we abandoned ourselves to our f… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: Here, then, upon this desolate shore we abandoned ourselves to our fate, for there was no possibility of scaling the mountain, and if a ship had appeared it could only have shared our doom. Who acts: shore, possibility, ship, our. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shore, possibility, ship, our), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg128:17:47 # text = Here, then, upon this desolate shore we abandoned ourselves to our fate, for there was no possibility of scaling the mountain, and if a ship had appeared it could only have shared our doom. 1 Here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 1 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 5 upon upon ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 1 obl _ _ 7 desolate desolate AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 1 cop _ _ 8 shore shore NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 abandoned abandon VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 11 ourselves ourselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 10 obj _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 fate fate NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 for for SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 18 expl _ _ 18 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 19 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 20 det _ _ 20 possibility possibility NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 21 of of SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 22 scaling scale VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 acl _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 27 if if SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 appeared appear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 conj _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 34 only only ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 35 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 aux _ _ 36 shared share VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 advcl _ _ 37 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 doom doom NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | infinitive | | | | | then | upon this; here *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **abandon** | past | shore | ourselves | | our fate | | | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme ourselves=Source to fate=Destination | | 3 | **be** | past | no possibility | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **scale** | gerund | no possibility *not said here* | the mountain | | | | | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Source | | 5 | **appear** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | a ship | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **share** | could · perfect · passive | | ship | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **fate** | | our | | | | | | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent | | 8 | **doom** | | our | | | | | | nom doom «event transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/17/46/) - next →: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/17/48/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/17/)