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title: Yesterday, at dusk, I was working in my shop with a light heart when… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Yesterday, at dusk, I was working in my shop with a light heart when the little hunchback, who was more than half drunk, came and sat in the doorway. Who acts: Yesterday, little hunchback. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree an
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 6

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Yesterday, at dusk, I was working in my shop with a light heart when the little hunchback, who was more than half drunk, came and sat in the doorway.

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**Who acts:** Yesterday, little hunchback · **What happens:** work, be, come, sit · **To what, where:** doorway

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yesterday, little hunchback), 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:pg128:20:6
# text = Yesterday, at dusk, I was working in my shop with a light heart when the little hunchback, who was more than half drunk, came and sat in the doorway.
1	Yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	dusk	dusk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	hunchback	hunchback	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	26	det:predet	_	_
26	drunk	drunk	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	doorway	doorway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | past · progressive | Yesterday and dusk |  |  |  |  | with a light heart; in my shop | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in shop=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the little hunchback |  |  |  |  | more *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the little hunchback *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | past | the little hunchback |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **sit** | past | the little hunchback *not said here* |  |  | the doorway |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in doorway=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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