The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 21

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

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.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	3 side	case
2	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	3 side	det
3	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obl
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 see	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 heaps	amod
8	heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 see	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 stones	case
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 stones	amod
11	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 stones	amod
12	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 heaps	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hear	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hear	cc
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 hear	aux
16	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 see	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 multitude	det
18	multitude	multitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hear	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 voices	case
20	insulting	insulting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 voices	amod
21	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 multitude	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 pay	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 pay	cc
24	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 see	conj
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 heed	det
26	heed	heed	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pay	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 pay	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 beware	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 beware	cc
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 all	punct
32	above	above	ADP	_	33 all	case
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 beware	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 all	punct
35	beware	beware	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 pay	conj
36	of	of	SCONJ	_	38 turning	mark
37	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	38 turning	advmod
38	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 beware	advcl
39	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 head	nmod:poss
40	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 turning	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	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

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: «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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