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title: That night I saw nothing, but just after sunrise the next morning a… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: That night I saw nothing, but just after sunrise the next morning a large herd of elephants came crashing and trampling by. Who acts: I, sunrise. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 76

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That night I saw nothing, but just after sunrise the next morning a large herd of elephants came crashing and trampling by.

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**Who acts:** I, sunrise · **What happens:** see, crash · **To what, where:** nothing

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sunrise), 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:pg128:18:76
# text = That night I saw nothing, but just after sunrise the next morning a large herd of elephants came crashing and trampling by.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
8	just	just	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	crashing	crash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	trampling	trampling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | I | nothing |  |  | night |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
| 2 | **crash** | past | sunrise |  |  |  | morning |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: 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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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