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title: Though he was very drunk, he was yet sober enough to know that the d… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Though he was very drunk, he was yet sober enough to know that the dawn was at hand, and that all good Mussulmen would shortly be going to prayer. Who acts: revenge, dawn, good Mussulmen. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 72

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Though he was very drunk, he was yet sober enough to know that the dawn was at hand, and that all good Mussulmen would shortly be going to prayer.

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**Who acts:** revenge, dawn, good Mussulmen · **What happens:** be, know, go · **To what, where:** hand, prayer

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (revenge, dawn, good Mussulmen), 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:pg128:19:72
# text = Though he was very drunk, he was yet sober enough to know that the dawn was at hand, and that all good Mussulmen would shortly be going to prayer.
1	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	drunk	drunk	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	sober	sober	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
11	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
24	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Mussulmen	Mussulmen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
27	shortly	shortly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux	_	_
29	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | revenge |  |  |  |  | drunk *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | revenge |  |  |  | yet | enough, sober *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** | to-infinitive | revenge *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | past | the dawn |  |  | hand |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | would · progressive | all good Mussulmen |  |  | prayer |  | shortly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to prayer=Initial\_Location |

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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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