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title: On waking next morning the first thing Prince Camaralzaman did was t… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: On waking next morning the first thing Prince Camaralzaman did was to look round for the lovely lady he had seen at night, and the next to question the slave who waited on him about her. Who acts: prince, slave. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23, with
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 113

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On waking next morning the first thing Prince Camaralzaman did was to look round for the lovely lady he had seen at night, and the next to question the slave who waited on him about her.

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**Who acts:** prince, slave · **What happens:** wake, be, see, question, wait · **To what, where:** first thing, lovely lady, slave

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, slave), 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:pg128:23:113
# text = On waking next morning the first thing Prince Camaralzaman did was to look round for the lovely lady he had seen at night, and the next to question the slave who waited on him about her.
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	waking	wake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
3	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
7	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
9	Camaralzaman	Camaralzaman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	round	round	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	question	question	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	_
36	about	about	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wake** | gerund |  | the first thing |  |  | morning |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | for the lovely lady; look, round *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | past · perfect | prince | the lovely lady *not said here* |  |  | night |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lady=Stimulus |
| 4 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **question** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  | the slave |  |  |  |  | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Recipient |
| 6 | **wait** | past | the slave |  |  |  |  | on prince; about lady | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=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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