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title: Then, worn out with anxiety and fatigue, I fell into a deep sleep, a… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, worn out with anxiety and fatigue, I fell into a deep sleep, and when I again opened my eyes I was once more in the light of day; a beautiful country lay before me, and my raft, which was tied to the river bank, was surrounded by friendly looking black men. Who acts: I, beautiful country. A se
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 61

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Then, worn out with anxiety and fatigue, I fell into a deep sleep, and when I again opened my eyes I was once more in the light of day; a beautiful country lay before me, and my raft, which was tied to the river bank, was surrounded by friendly looking black men.

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**Who acts:** I, beautiful country · **What happens:** wear out, fall, open, be, lie, tie · **To what, where:** deep sleep, eyes, light, raft, black men

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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 (I, beautiful country), 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:pg128:17:61
# text = Then, worn out with anxiety and fatigue, I fell into a deep sleep, and when I again opened my eyes I was once more in the light of day; a beautiful country lay before me, and my raft, which was tied to the river bank, was surrounded by friendly looking black men.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	again	again	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
26	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	27	advmod	_	_
27	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	30	advmod	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	parataxis	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
38	before	before	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	raft	raft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj:pass	_	_
46	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux:pass	_	_
47	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	acl:relcl	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	_
51	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
53	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	aux:pass	_	_
54	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	conj	_	_
55	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
56	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	54	advcl	_	_
58	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear out** | participle |  |  |  |  | then | with anxiety and fatigue | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fall** | past | I |  |  |  |  | into a deep sleep *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sleep=Result |
| 3 | **open** | past | I | my eyes |  |  | again |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | I |  |  | the light | day |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **lie** | past | a beautiful country | my raft |  |  | before me |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before i=Location |
| 6 | **tie** | past · passive |  | my raft |  |  |  | to the river bank | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to bank=Co-Patient |
| 7 | **surround** | past · passive | a beautiful country *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP» |
| 8 | **look** | gerund | a beautiful country *not said here* | black men |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme man=Attribute |

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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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