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title: On each side you will see vast heaps of big black stones, and will h… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: On each side you will see vast heaps of big black stones, and will hear a multitude of insulting voices, but pay no heed to them, and, above all, beware of ever turning your head. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42, with its dependency t
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 21

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On each side you will see vast heaps of big black stones, and will hear a multitude of insulting voices, but pay no heed to them, and, above all, beware of ever turning your head.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** see, hear, pay, beware, turn · **To what, where:** vast heaps, side, multitude, heed, voices, all

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg128:3476`): 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:pg128:42:21
# text = On each side you will see vast heaps of big black stones, and will hear a multitude of insulting voices, but pay no heed to them, and, above all, beware of ever turning your head.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	heaps	heap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	multitude	multitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	insulting	insulting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	pay	pay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
25	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	26	det	_	_
26	heed	heed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	above	above	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	obl	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
35	beware	beware	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
36	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
37	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	38	advmod	_	_
38	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	advcl	_	_
39	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | future | you | vast heaps of big black stones |  | each side |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heap=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hear** | future | you *not said here* | a multitude of insulting voices |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer multitude=Stimulus |
| 3 | **pay** | infinitive | you *not said here* | no heed | voices *= voice* |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset |
| 4 | **beware** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | all |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **turn** | gerund | you *not said here* | your head |  |  | ever |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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