--- title: An hour before daybreak Dinarzade awoke, and exclaimed, as she had p… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: An hour before daybreak Dinarzade awoke, and exclaimed, as she had promised, "My dear sister, if you are not asleep, tell me I pray you, before the sun rises, one of your charming stories. Who acts: Dinarzade, you, sun. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dinarzade, you, sun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg128:1:105 # text = An hour before daybreak Dinarzade awoke, and exclaimed, as she had promised, "My dear sister, if you are not asleep, tell me I pray you, before the sun rises, one of your charming stories. 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 before before ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 daybreak daybreak NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 Dinarzade Dinarzade PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 awoke awake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 exclaimed exclaim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 as as SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 promised promise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 21 if if SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 27 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 parataxis _ _ 28 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 iobj _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 pray pray VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 ccomp _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 before before SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 rises rise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 obl _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 41 charming charming NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **awake** | past | Dinarzade | | | | hour | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | Dinarzade *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past · perfect | Dinarzade | My dear sister | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you | | | | | asleep *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | | | Dinarzade | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **pray** *in a quote* | present | Dinarzade | you | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **rise** *in a quote* | present | the sun | one of your charming stories | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/1/104/) - next →: [sentence 106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/1/106/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/1/)