--- title: When night came he washed himself, performed his devotions, and, hav… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: When night came he washed himself, performed his devotions, and, having read some pages of the Koran, lay down on a couch, without putting out the light near him, and was soon asleep. Who acts: night, Camaralzaman. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night, Camaralzaman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg128:23:7 # text = When night came he washed himself, performed his devotions, and, having read some pages of the Koran, lay down on a couch, without putting out the light near him, and was soon asleep. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 washed wash VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 performed perform VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 devotions devotion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 having have AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 aux _ _ 15 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 16 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 17 det _ _ 17 pages page NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Koran Koran PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 23 down down ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 couch couch NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 without without SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 29 putting put VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 30 out out ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 near near ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 38 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 39 advmod _ _ 39 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | night | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **wash** | past | Camaralzaman | Camaralzaman | | | | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | | 3 | **perform** | past | Camaralzaman *not said here* | Camaralzaman's devotions | | | | | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent devotion=Theme | | 4 | **read** | gerund | Camaralzaman *not said here* | some pages of the Koran | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent page=Topic | | 5 | **lay down** | present | Camaralzaman *not said here* | | | a couch | | down *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on couch=Destination | | 6 | **put out** | gerund | Camaralzaman *not said here* | the light | | | | near Camaralzaman | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent light=Theme near he=Destination | | 7 | **is** | past | Camaralzaman *not said here* | | | | | asleep, soon *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **devote** | | Camaralzaman | | | | | | nom devotion «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | | 9 | **page** | | | the Koran | | | | | nom page «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/23/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/23/8/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/23/)