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title: She could not weary gazing at Camaralzaman, but at length, having so… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: She could not weary gazing at Camaralzaman, but at length, having softly kissed his brow and each cheek, she replaced the coverlet and resumed her flight through the air. Who acts: Maimoune, length. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23, with its dependen
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 15

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She could not weary gazing at Camaralzaman, but at length, having softly kissed his brow and each cheek, she replaced the coverlet and resumed her flight through the air.

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**Who acts:** Maimoune, length · **What happens:** not weary, gaze, have, kiss, replace, resume · **To what, where:** brow, length, coverlet, flight, air

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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 (Maimoune, length), 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:pg128:23:15
# text = She could not weary gazing at Camaralzaman, but at length, having softly kissed his brow and each cheek, she replaced the coverlet and resumed her flight through the air.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	weary	weary	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Camaralzaman	Camaralzaman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
14	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	brow	brow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	cheek	cheek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	replaced	replace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	coverlet	coverlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	resumed	resume	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	through	through	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **weary** | could | Maimoune |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **gaze** | gerund | Maimoune *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at Camaralzaman | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at camaralzaman=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | length *not said here* |  |  |  |  | softly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **kiss** | past |  | prince's brow and each cheek |  | length |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brow=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **replace** | past | Maimoune | the coverlet |  |  |  |  | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme coverlet=Co-Theme |
| 6 | **resume** | past | Maimoune *not said here* | Maimoune's flight |  | the air |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=Eventuality |

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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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