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title: When Wali Dâd from a distance saw the cloud of dust which the carava… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When Wali Dâd from a distance saw the cloud of dust which the caravan made, and the glitter of its appointments, he said to himself: “By Allah! here’s a grand crowd coming! Who acts: Wali, cloud, glitter, grand crowd. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 55

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When Wali Dâd from a distance saw the cloud of dust which the caravan made, and the glitter of its appointments, he said to himself: “By Allah! here’s a grand crowd coming!

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**Who acts:** Wali, cloud, glitter, grand crowd · **What happens:** see, caravan, make, say, come, cloud · **To what, where:** cloud, caravan, Wali, dust · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wali, cloud, glitter, grand crowd), 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:pg3282:34:55
# text = When Wali Dâd from a distance saw the cloud of dust which the caravan made, and the glitter of its appointments, he said to himself: “By Allah! here’s a grand crowd coming!
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	Wali	Wali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	Dâd	Dâd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	caravan	caravan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
15	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	glitter	glitter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	appointments	appointment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
29	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	By	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Allah	Allah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	_
33	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	ccomp	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
38	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Wali from a distance | the cloud of dust |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cloud=Stimulus |
| 2 | **caravan** |  | the cloud of dust |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | participle |  | the caravan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the glitter of glitter's appointments |  | Wali |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient |
| 5 | **come** *in a quote* | gerund | a grand crowd *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **cloud** |  |  | dust |  |  |  |  | nom cloud «phenomenon 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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