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title: Have you forgotten that you came here in search of the Talking Bird,… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Have you forgotten that you came here in search of the Talking Bird, the Singing Tree, and the Golden Water, and the black stones that were heaped up along the road? Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 13

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Have you forgotten that you came here in search of the Talking Bird, the Singing Tree, and the Golden Water, and the black stones that were heaped up along the road?

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** forget, come, heap up, search · **To what, where:** Golden Water, search, black stones, road, Talking Bird · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43. 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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**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:pg128:43:13
# text = Have you forgotten that you came here in search of the Talking Bird, the Singing Tree, and the Golden Water, and the black stones that were heaped up along the road?
1	Have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Talking	Talking	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Bird	Bird	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Singing	Singing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	heaped	heap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
31	up	up	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	along	along	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | present · perfect | you | the Golden Water |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | you |  |  | search of the Talking Bird and the Singing Tree; here |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in search=Location |
| 3 | **heap up** | past · passive |  | the black stones |  | the road |  |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme along road=Destination |
| 4 | **search** |  |  | the Talking Bird and the Singing Tree |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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