--- title: Here they turned towards the Euphrates, and crossing the river in a… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: Here they turned towards the Euphrates, and crossing the river in a small boat, walked through that part of the town which lay along the further bank, without seeing anything to call for their interference. Who acts: Caliph, town. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Ope --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/32/121/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/32/) / 121 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 121 Here they turned towards the Euphrates, and crossing the river in a small boat, walked through that part of the town which lay along the further bank, without seeing anything to call for their interference. **Who acts:** Caliph, town · **What happens:** turn, cross, walk, lie, see, call · **To what, where:** Euphrates, river, part, further bank, anything · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Caliph, town), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg128:32:121 # text = Here they turned towards the Euphrates, and crossing the river in a small boat, walked through that part of the town which lay along the further bank, without seeing anything to call for their interference. 1 Here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 towards towards ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Euphrates Euphrate PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 crossing cross VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 through through ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 20 det _ _ 20 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 along along ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 further further ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 bank bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 without without SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 32 seeing see VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 33 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 32 obj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 advcl _ _ 36 for for ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 interference interference NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | past | Caliph | | | the Euphrates; here | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards euphrate=Trajectory | | 2 | **cross** | gerund | Caliph *not said here* | the river | | | | in a small boat | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent river=Patient in boat=Topic | | 3 | **walk** | past | Caliph *not said here* | | | that part of the town | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through part=Trajectory | | 4 | **lie** | past | the town | | | the further bank | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along bank=Location | | 5 | **see** | gerund | Caliph *not said here* | anything | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | | 6 | **call** | to-infinitive | Caliph *not said here* | | | | | for Caliph's interference | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for interference=Recipient | | 7 | **interfere** | | Caliph | | | | | | nom interference «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/32/120/) - next →: [sentence 122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/32/122/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/32/)