--- title: At the foot of the grand-vizir's staircase I shall dismount, and whi… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: At the foot of the grand-vizir's staircase I shall dismount, and while my servants stand in a row to right and left I shall ascend the stairs, at the head of which the grand-vizir will be waiting to receive me. Who acts: I, servants, grand vizir. 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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 (I, servants, grand vizir), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg128:1680`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg128:20:49 # text = At the foot of the grand-vizir's staircase I shall dismount, and while my servants stand in a row to right and left I shall ascend the stairs, at the head of which the grand-vizir will be waiting to receive me. 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 grand grand ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 8 vizir vizir NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 staircase staircase NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 dismount dismount VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 16 while while SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 stand stand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 row row NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 right right NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 left left NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 ascend ascend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 stairs stair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 33 at at ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nmod _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 39 grand grand ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 40 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ _ 41 vizir vizir NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 42 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 43 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 44 aux _ _ 44 waiting wait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 acl:relcl _ _ 45 to to PART TO _ 46 mark _ _ 46 receive receive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 xcomp _ _ 47 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 46 obj _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dismount** | shall | I | | | the foot of the grand vizir's staircase | | | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **stand** | present | my servants | | | a row | | to right and left | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in row=Location | | 3 | **ascend** | shall | I | the stairs | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stair=Trajectory | | 4 | **wait** | future · progressive | the grand vizir | | | the head | | | tree rules | | 5 | **receive** | to-infinitive | the grand vizir *not said here* | me | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | 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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/20/48/) - next →: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/20/50/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/20/)