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title: All that day I floated up and down, now beaten this way, now that, a… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: All that day I floated up and down, now beaten this way, now that, and when night fell I despaired for my life; but, weary and spent as I was, I clung to my frail support, and great was my joy when the morning light showed me that I had drifted against an island. Who acts: I, night, morning light, m
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 49

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All that day I floated up and down, now beaten this way, now that, and when night fell I despaired for my life; but, weary and spent as I was, I clung to my frail support, and great was my joy when the morning light showed me that I had drifted against an island.

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**Who acts:** I, night, morning light, my · **What happens:** float, beat, fall, despair, spend, be · **To what, where:** way, great joy, me, island · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, night, morning light, my), 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:pg128:13:49
# text = All that day I floated up and down, now beaten this way, now that, and when night fell I despaired for my life; but, weary and spent as I was, I clung to my frail support, and great was my joy when the morning light showed me that I had drifted against an island.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	floated	float	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	down	down	ADV	RB	_	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	beaten	beat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
20	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	despaired	despair	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	spent	spend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	conj	_	_
33	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	clung	cling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
41	frail	frail	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	support	support	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
46	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
47	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
49	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	53	advmod	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	_
52	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
53	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	advcl	_	_
54	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	53	iobj	_	_
55	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
56	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
57	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
58	drifted	drift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	53	ccomp	_	_
59	against	against	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | past | I |  |  |  | day |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **beat** | participle |  | this way |  |  | now |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | past | night |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **despair** | past | I |  |  |  |  | for my life | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **spend** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **be** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **cling** | past | I |  |  |  |  | to my frail support | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to support=Co-Theme |
| 8 | **is a** | past |  | my great joy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **show** | past | the morning light |  | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 10 | **drift** | past · perfect | I |  |  | a island |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against island=Trajectory |
| 11 | **support** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom support «act transitive»: 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:** «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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