--- title: Also to while away the time of waiting I explored a little island na… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: Also to while away the time of waiting I explored a little island named Cassel, which belonged to King Mihrage, and which was supposed to be inhabited by a spirit named Deggial. Who acts: time, I, Cassel, spirit. 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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 (time, I, Cassel, spirit), 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:pg128:13:58 # text = Also to while away the time of waiting I explored a little island named Cassel, which belonged to King Mihrage, and which was supposed to be inhabited by a spirit named Deggial. 1 Also also ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 to to PART TO _ 3 mark _ _ 3 while while VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 away away ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 of of SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 8 waiting wait VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 acl _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 explored explore VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 named name VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ _ 15 Cassel Cassel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 belonged belong VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 Mihrage Mihrage PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 supposed suppose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 28 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 inhabited inhabit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 xcomp _ _ 30 by by ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 spirit spirit NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 named name VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 acl _ _ 34 Deggial Deggial PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **while away** | to-infinitive | | | | | time | | tree rules | | 2 | **wait** | gerund | the time *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **explore** | past | I | a little island | | | | | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent island=Location | | 4 | **name** | participle | | a little island *not said here* | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **belong** | past | Cassel | | King Mihrage | | | | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **suppose** | past · passive | | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | | 7 | **inhabit** | to-infinitive · passive | a spirit | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **name** | participle | | a spirit *not said here* | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: 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 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/13/57/) - next →: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/13/59/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/13/)