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title: On the fourth day of his journey, the heat of the sun being very gre… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: On the fourth day of his journey, the heat of the sun being very great, he turned out of his road to rest under some trees. Who acts: heat, Scheherazade, sun. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 116

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On the fourth day of his journey, the heat of the sun being very great, he turned out of his road to rest under some trees.

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**Who acts:** heat, Scheherazade, sun · **What happens:** be, turn out, rest, journey, heat · **To what, where:** road, trees

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (heat, Scheherazade, sun), 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:pg128:1:116
# text = On the fourth day of his journey, the heat of the sun being very great, he turned out of his road to rest under some trees.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	cop	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
26	under	under	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
28	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund | the heat of the sun |  |  |  | day | great *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn out** | past | Scheherazade | Scheherazade's road |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location road=Theme |
| 3 | **rest** | to-infinitive | Scheherazade *not said here* |  |  | some trees |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under tree=Location |
| 4 | **journey** |  | Scheherazade |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **heat** |  | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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:** «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.

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