--- title: To him who touches the mountains and they smoke, the Almighty and th… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics description: To him who touches the mountains and they smoke, the Almighty and the Most Merciful, be everlasting honour! he has ordained sleep to be the minister of instruction, and his visions have reproved me in the night. Who acts: mountains, Carazan, visions. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainm --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/17/10/) [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/) / [Oriental tales, for the entertainment…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/) / [The Story of Carazan.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/17/) / 10 # Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Carazan., sentence 10 To him who touches the mountains and they smoke, the Almighty and the Most Merciful, be everlasting honour! he has ordained sleep to be the minister of instruction, and his visions have reproved me in the night. **Who acts:** mountains, Carazan, visions · **What happens:** touch, smoke, be, ordain, reprove · **To what, where:** mountains, Carazan, Almighty, everlasting honour, sleep, minister This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Carazan.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mountains, Carazan, visions), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg62868:17:10 # text = To him who touches the mountains and they smoke, the Almighty and the Most Merciful, be everlasting honour! he has ordained sleep to be the minister of instruction, and his visions have reproved me in the night. 1 To to ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 touches touch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 smoke smoke VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Almighty almighty NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 16 amod _ _ 16 Merciful Merciful PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 cop _ _ 19 everlasting everlasting ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 honour honour NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ! ! PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 ordained ordain VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 20 acl:relcl _ _ 25 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 27 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 29 cop _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 minister minister NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 advcl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 instruction instruction NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 visions vision NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 36 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 reproved reprove VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 38 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **touch** | present | | the mountains | Carazan | | | who *nsubj* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mountain=Co-Theme | | 2 | **smoke** | present | mountains *= mountain* | the Almighty and the Most Merciful | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent almighty=Source | | 3 | **is a** | infinitive | mountains *= mountain* *not said here* | everlasting honour | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **ordain** | present · perfect | Carazan | sleep | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive | Carazan *not said here* | the minister | | | | of instruction | tree rules | | 6 | **reprove** | present · perfect | Carazan's visions | me | | | night | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | 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:** «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (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 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/17/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/17/11/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Carazan.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/17/)