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title: Next morning Camaralzaman woke up before the bird left its perch, an… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Next morning Camaralzaman woke up before the bird left its perch, and no sooner did it take flight than he followed it again with as little success as the previous day, only stopping to eat some herbs and fruit he found by the way. Who acts: bird, strength. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertai
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 95

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Next morning Camaralzaman woke up before the bird left its perch, and no sooner did it take flight than he followed it again with as little success as the previous day, only stopping to eat some herbs and fruit he found by the way.

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**Who acts:** bird, strength · **What happens:** wake up, leave, take, follow, stop, eat · **To what, where:** perch, bird, flight, herbs, fruit

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird, strength), 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:pg128:25:95
# text = Next morning Camaralzaman woke up before the bird left its perch, and no sooner did it take flight than he followed it again with as little success as the previous day, only stopping to eat some herbs and fruit he found by the way.
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	Camaralzaman	Camaralzaman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	woke	wake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	perch	perch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
16	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	expl	_	_
18	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
19	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	success	success	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	previous	previous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	only	only	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	stopping	stop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	39	det	_	_
39	herbs	herb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
42	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	acl:relcl	_	_
44	by	by	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wake up** | past |  |  |  |  | morning |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **leave** | past | the bird | bird's perch |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent perch=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | past · do-support |  | bird |  |  | again; day | with little success; soon *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=Theme |
| 4 | **follow** | past | strength | flight |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **stop** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **eat** | to-infinitive |  | some herbs and fruit |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herb=Patient |
| 7 | **find** | past | strength | fruit *not said here* |  |  |  | by the way | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Topic |

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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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