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title: It seemed to me a long time before I was once more set upon my feet… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: It seemed to me a long time before I was once more set upon my feet by the elephant, and I stood as if in a dream watching the herd, which turned and trampled off in another direction, and were soon hidden in the dense underwood. Who acts: It, I, herd. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainment
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 84

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It seemed to me a long time before I was once more set upon my feet by the elephant, and I stood as if in a dream watching the herd, which turned and trampled off in another direction, and were soon hidden in the dense underwood.

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**Who acts:** It, I, herd · **What happens:** seem, be, stand, watch, turn, trample off · **To what, where:** me, herd, dream, direction, dense underwood

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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 (It, I, 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:pg128:18:84
# text = It seemed to me a long time before I was once more set upon my feet by the elephant, and I stood as if in a dream watching the herd, which turned and trampled off in another direction, and were soon hidden in the dense underwood.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	12	advmod	_	_
12	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
13	set	set	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
25	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
29	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	trampled	trample	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	conj	_	_
37	off	off	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	40	det	_	_
40	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
43	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux:pass	_	_
44	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	45	advmod	_	_
45	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	dense	dense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	underwood	underwood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | It |  | me |  | time |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | I |  |  |  |  | upon my feet; by the elephant; set *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **stand** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **watch** | gerund | I *not said here* | the herd |  | a dream |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Theme |
| 5 | **turn** | past | the herd |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **trample off** | participle | the herd *not said here* |  |  | another direction |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **hide** | past · passive | I *not said here* |  |  | the dense underwood |  | soon *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: in underwood=Location |

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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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