--- title: One night, however, Prince Camaralzaman dreamt that he saw his fathe… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: One night, however, Prince Camaralzaman dreamt that he saw his father lying at the point of death, and saying: "Alas! my son whom I loved so tenderly, has deserted me and is now causing my death." Who acts: Prince, father, my. 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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 (Prince, father, my), 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:pg128:25:64 # text = One night, however, Prince Camaralzaman dreamt that he saw his father lying at the point of death, and saying: "Alas! my son whom I loved so tenderly, has deserted me and is now causing my death." 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 however however ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 Camaralzaman Camaralzaman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ _ 8 dreamt dreamt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 acl _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 point point NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 : : PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 Alas alas INTJ UH _ 36 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ! ! PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ 27 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 31 obj _ _ 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 32 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 tenderly tenderly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 35 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 deserted desert VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 37 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 39 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 40 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 41 advmod _ _ 41 causing cause VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 conj _ _ 42 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dreamt** | past | Prince | | | | night | however *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **see** | past | Prince | Prince's father | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus | | 3 | **lie** | gerund | Prince's father *not said here* | | | the point of death | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at point=Location | | 4 | **say** *speech: express* | gerund | Prince *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **love** *in a quote* | past | Prince | my son | | | | tenderly *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus | | 6 | **desert** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | | my son | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **cause** *in a quote* | present · progressive | | my death | | | now | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition death=Patient | | 8 | **point** | | | death | | | | | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient | | 9 | **die** *in a quote* | | my | | | | | | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent | 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 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/25/63/) - next →: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/25/65/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/25/)