--- title: This went on all day, and even at night, when I threw myself down ha… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: This went on all day, and even at night, when I threw myself down half dead with weariness, the terrible old man held on tight to my neck, nor did he fail to greet the first glimmer of morning light by drumming upon me with his heels, until I perforce awoke and resumed my dreary march with rage and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/17/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/17/) / 11 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 11 This went on all day, and even at night, when I threw myself down half dead with weariness, the terrible old man held on tight to my neck, nor did he fail to greet the first glimmer of morning light by drumming upon me with his heels, until I perforce awoke and resumed my dreary march with rage and bitterness in my heart. **Who acts:** This, I, man, morning light · **What happens:** go, throw down, hold, fail, not greet, drum · **To what, where:** myself, terrible old man, tight, first glimmer, dreary march, heart This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, I, man, morning light), 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:pg128:17:11 # text = This went on all day, and even at night, when I threw myself down half dead with weariness, the terrible old man held on tight to my neck, nor did he fail to greet the first glimmer of morning light by drumming upon me with his heels, until I perforce awoke and resumed my dreary march with rage and bitterness in my heart. 1 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 nsubj _ _ 2 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 5 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 even even ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 15 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 14 obj _ _ 16 down down ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 17 half half ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 18 advmod _ _ 18 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 advcl _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 weariness weariness NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 terrible terrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 appos _ _ 26 held hold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 acl _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 tight tight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 obl _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 36 cc _ _ 34 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 fail fail VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 greet greet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 41 amod _ _ 41 glimmer glimmer NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ _ 45 by by SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 46 drumming drum VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 advcl _ _ 47 upon upon ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 46 obl _ _ 49 with with ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 51 nmod:poss _ _ 51 heels heel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 53 until until SCONJ IN _ 56 mark _ _ 54 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 56 nsubj _ _ 55 perforce perforce NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 nsubj _ _ 56 awoke awake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 parataxis _ _ 57 and and CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 58 resumed resume VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 56 conj _ _ 59 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 61 nmod:poss _ _ 60 dreary dreary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 61 amod _ _ 61 march march NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 obj _ _ 62 with with ADP IN _ 63 case _ _ 63 rage rage NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 obl _ _ 64 and and CCONJ CC _ 65 cc _ _ 65 bitterness bitterness NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 conj _ _ 66 in in ADP IN _ 68 case _ _ 67 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 68 nmod:poss _ _ 68 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 69 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | This | | | | day; night | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **throw down** | past | I | myself | | | | with weariness | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme | | 3 | **hold** | participle | | the terrible old man *not said here* | | tight | | to my neck | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tight=Location | | 4 | **fail** | past · do-support | man | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **not** **greet** *speech: greet* | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | the first glimmer of morning light | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glimmer=Theme | | 6 | **drum** | gerund | man *not said here* | | | | | upon me; with man's heels | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with heel=Instrument | | 7 | **awake** | past | I | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **resume** | past | I *not said here* | my dreary march | | my heart | | with rage and bitterness | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent march=Eventuality with rage=Subeventuality | | 9 | **glimmer** | | morning light | | | | | | nom glimmer «event intransitive»: of=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 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/17/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/17/12/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/17/)