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title: As soon as the dawn appeared the bird rose into the air carrying me… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as the dawn appeared the bird rose into the air carrying me up and up till I could no longer see the earth, and then suddenly it descended so swiftly that I almost lost consciousness. Who acts: dawn, bird, I. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14,
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 25

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As soon as the dawn appeared the bird rose into the air carrying me up and up till I could no longer see the earth, and then suddenly it descended so swiftly that I almost lost consciousness.

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**Who acts:** dawn, bird, I · **What happens:** appear, rise, carry up, see, descend, lose · **To what, where:** air, me, earth, consciousness

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dawn, bird, I), 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:pg128:14:25
# text = As soon as the dawn appeared the bird rose into the air carrying me up and up till I could no longer see the earth, and then suddenly it descended so swiftly that I almost lost consciousness.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	up	up	ADV	RB	_	15	conj	_	_
18	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	no	no	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
23	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
29	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	descended	descend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
38	consciousness	consciousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | the dawn |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **rise** | past | the bird |  |  | the air |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **carry up** | gerund | the bird *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | could | I | the earth |  |  |  | long *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer earth=Stimulus |
| 5 | **descend** | past | bird |  |  |  | then | suddenly, swiftly *property* | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **lose** | past | I | consciousness |  |  |  | almost *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consciousness=Eventuality |

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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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