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title: By daybreak our travellers found themselves where four cross roads m… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: By daybreak our travellers found themselves where four cross roads met in the middle of the forest. Who acts: travellers, four cross roads. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 7

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By daybreak our travellers found themselves where four cross roads met in the middle of the forest.

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**Who acts:** travellers, four cross roads · **What happens:** find, meet · **To what, where:** travellers, middle

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (travellers, four cross roads), 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:pg128:25:7
# text = By daybreak our travellers found themselves where four cross roads met in the middle of the forest.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	daybreak	daybreak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	travellers	traveller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
8	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | our travellers | travellers *= traveller* |  |  |  | by daybreak | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic |
| 2 | **meet** | past | four cross roads |  |  | the middle of the forest |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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