--- title: Feeling perfectly bewildered by my sudden return to life and light,… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: Feeling perfectly bewildered by my sudden return to life and light, I murmured to myself in Arabic, "Close thine eyes, and while thou sleepest Heaven will change thy fortune from evil to good." Who acts: I, thou, my. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/17/63/) [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/) / 63 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 63 Feeling perfectly bewildered by my sudden return to life and light, I murmured to myself in Arabic, "Close thine eyes, and while thou sleepest Heaven will change thy fortune from evil to good." **Who acts:** I, thou, my · **What happens:** feel, bewilder, murmur, sleep, change, return · **To what, where:** Close, myself, Arabic, Heaven, fortune, evil · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, thou, my), 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:pg128:17:63 # text = Feeling perfectly bewildered by my sudden return to life and light, I murmured to myself in Arabic, "Close thine eyes, and while thou sleepest Heaven will change thy fortune from evil to good." 1 Feeling feel VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 2 perfectly perfectly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 bewildered bewilder VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 xcomp _ _ 4 by by ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 sudden sudden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 return return NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 murmured murmur VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 14 obl _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Arabic Arabic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 Close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 obl _ _ 22 thine thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 26 while while SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 28 nsubj _ _ 28 sleepest sleep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 29 Heaven Heaven PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 change change VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 32 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 from from ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 evil evil NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | gerund | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **bewilder** | participle | I *not said here* | | | | | by my sudden return to life and light; perfectly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **murmur** *speech: other* | past | I | Close | myself | Arabic | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to myself=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **sleep** *in a quote* | present | thou | Heaven | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heaven=Theme | | 5 | **change** *in a quote* | future | | thy fortune | | evil | | to good | tree rules | | 6 | **return** | | my | | | | | to life | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl | 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 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/17/62/) - next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/17/64/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/17/)