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title: I thought now that my last hour was surely come; but the huge creatu… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I thought now that my last hour was surely come; but the huge creature, picking me up gently enough, set me upon its back, where I clung more dead than alive, and followed by the whole herd turned and crashed off into the dense forest. Who acts: I, huge creature, whole herd. A sentence of «The Arabi
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 83

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I thought now that my last hour was surely come; but the huge creature, picking me up gently enough, set me upon its back, where I clung more dead than alive, and followed by the whole herd turned and crashed off into the dense forest.

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**Who acts:** I, huge creature, whole herd · **What happens:** think, come, pick up, set, cling, follow · **To what, where:** last hour, me, back, more dead, dense forest · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, huge creature, whole herd), 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:pg128:18:83
# text = I thought now that my last hour was surely come; but the huge creature, picking me up gently enough, set me upon its back, where I clung more dead than alive, and followed by the whole herd turned and crashed off into the dense forest.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	picking	pick	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
20	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
21	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	set	set	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	31	advmod	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	clung	cling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
32	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	33	amod	_	_
33	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	obj	_	_
34	than	than	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	parataxis	_	_
39	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
43	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	advcl	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	crashed	crash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	conj	_	_
46	off	off	ADP	RP	_	45	compound:prt	_	_
47	into	into	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	dense	dense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | I |  |  |  | now |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past · passive |  | my last hour |  |  |  | surely *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **pick up** | gerund | the huge creature *not said here* | me |  |  |  | enough, gently *property* | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Topic |
| 4 | **set** | infinitive |  | me |  | creature's back |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme upon back=Destination |
| 5 | **cling** | past | I | more dead |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dead=Theme |
| 6 | **follow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **turn** | past | the whole herd |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **crash off** | past | the whole herd *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into the dense forest *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into forest=Result |

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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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