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title: We have waited for your awakening; tell us now whence you come and w… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: We have waited for your awakening; tell us now whence you come and where you were going by that dangerous way?" Who acts: We, you, your. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 66

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We have waited for your awakening; tell us now whence you come and where you were going by that dangerous way?"

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**Who acts:** We, you, your · **What happens:** wait, tell, come, go, awaken · **To what, where:** us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (We, you, your), 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:pg128:17:66
# text = We have waited for your awakening; tell us now whence you come and where you were going by that dangerous way?"
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	waited	wait	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	awakening	awakening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
9	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
11	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
21	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | present · perfect | We |  |  |  |  | for your awakening | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | We *not said here* |  | us |  | now |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient |
| 3 | **come** | present | you |  |  |  |  | whence *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | past · progressive | you |  |  |  |  | by that dangerous way | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by way=Location |
| 5 | **awaken** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom awakening «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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