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title: They turned their eyes every way, and saw a being of mighty stature… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: They turned their eyes every way, and saw a being of mighty stature advancing through the valley, whom they knew upon his nearer approach to be the Genius of Distribution. Who acts: flocks, mighty stature, Raschid. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Hamet an
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Hamet and Raschid., sentence 3

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They turned their eyes every way, and saw a being of mighty stature advancing through the valley, whom they knew upon his nearer approach to be the Genius of Distribution.

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**Who acts:** flocks, mighty stature, Raschid · **What happens:** turn, see, be, advance, know, approach · **To what, where:** eyes, valley, mighty stature, Genius

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Hamet and Raschid.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flocks, mighty stature, Raschid), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62868:5:3
# text = They turned their eyes every way, and saw a being of mighty stature advancing through the valley, whom they knew upon his nearer approach to be the Genius of Distribution.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	cop	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	stature	stature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
15	advancing	advance	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	through	through	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
23	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	amod	_	_
26	approach	approach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Genius	Genius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Distribution	Distribution	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | flocks *= flock* | flocks's eyes |  |  |  | every way *xcomp* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | flocks *= flock* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of a mighty stature | tree rules |
| 4 | **advance** | gerund | a mighty stature *not said here* |  |  | the valley |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through valley=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **know** | past | flocks *= flock* | a mighty stature |  |  |  | upon Raschid's nearer approach | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus |
| 6 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | the Genius |  |  |  | of Distribution | tree rules |
| 7 | **approach** |  | Raschid |  |  |  |  |  | nom approach «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** «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.

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