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title: Before he had accomplished half the distance he was so tired that, f… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Before he had accomplished half the distance he was so tired that, finding himself in a quiet street where the pavement was sprinkled with rose water, and a cool breeze was blowing, he set his burden upon the ground, and sat down to rest in the shade of a grand house. Who acts: Hindbad, cool breeze.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 5

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Before he had accomplished half the distance he was so tired that, finding himself in a quiet street where the pavement was sprinkled with rose water, and a cool breeze was blowing, he set his burden upon the ground, and sat down to rest in the shade of a grand house.

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**Who acts:** Hindbad, cool breeze · **What happens:** accomplish, be, find, sprinkle, blow, set · **To what, where:** distance, Hindbad, quiet street, pavement, burden, ground

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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 (Hindbad, cool breeze), 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:pg128:13:5
# text = Before he had accomplished half the distance he was so tired that, finding himself in a quiet street where the pavement was sprinkled with rose water, and a cool breeze was blowing, he set his burden upon the ground, and sat down to rest in the shade of a grand house.
1	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	37	advcl	_	_
5	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
15	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	pavement	pavement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	breeze	breeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	blowing	blow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	burden	burden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	parataxis	_	_
46	down	down	ADP	RP	_	45	compound:prt	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	advcl	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	37	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accomplish** | past · perfect | Hindbad | half distance |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distance=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | past | Hindbad | half distance *not said here* |  |  |  | tired *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | gerund | Hindbad *not said here* | Hindbad |  | a quiet street |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
| 4 | **sprinkle** | past · passive |  | the pavement |  |  |  | with rose water | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with water=Theme |
| 5 | **blow** | past · progressive | a cool breeze |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **set** | past | Hindbad | Hindbad's burden |  | the ground |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent burden=Theme upon ground=Destination |
| 7 | **sit down** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **rest** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the shade of a grand house |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shade=Location |
| 9 | **burden** |  | Hindbad |  |  |  |  |  | nom burden «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 10 | **shade** |  |  | a grand house |  |  |  |  | nom shade «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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