--- title: For seven days I hurried on, resting only when the darkness stopped… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: For seven days I hurried on, resting only when the darkness stopped me, and living chiefly upon cocoanuts, which afforded me both meat and drink, and on the eighth day I reached the seashore and saw a party of white men gathering pepper, which grew abundantly all about. 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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 (I, darkness, cocoanuts, gathering pepper), 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:pg128:16:1 # text = For seven days I hurried on, resting only when the darkness stopped me, and living chiefly upon cocoanuts, which afforded me both meat and drink, and on the eighth day I reached the seashore and saw a party of white men gathering pepper, which grew abundantly all about. 1 For for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 hurried hurry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 on on ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 resting rest VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 9 only only ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 when when SCONJ WRB _ 13 mark _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 darkness darkness NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 14 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 living live VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 18 chiefly chiefly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 upon upon ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 cocoanuts cocoanut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 afforded afford VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 24 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 26 det _ _ 26 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 drink drink NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 eighth eighth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 35 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 seashore seashore NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nmod _ _ 46 gathering gather VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 47 amod _ _ 47 pepper pepper NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 49 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 50 nsubj _ _ 50 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 acl:relcl _ _ 51 abundantly abundantly ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 52 all all ADV RB _ 53 advmod _ _ 53 about about ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hurry on** | past | I | | | | day | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **rest** | gerund | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **stop** | past | the darkness | me | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality i=Eventuality | | 4 | **live** | gerund | I *not said here* | | | cocoanuts | | chiefly *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon cocoanut=Location | | 5 | **afford** | past | cocoanuts | me | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **reach** | past | I | the seashore | | | day | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent seashore=Theme | | 7 | **see** | past | I *not said here* | a party of white men and gathering pepper | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer party=Stimulus | | 8 | **gather** | gerund | | | | | | | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **grow** | past | gathering pepper | | | | | about, abundantly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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: [Opening, part 15, 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/15/92/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/16/2/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/16/)