--- title: At length a day came when, one of his friends being admitted, urged… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: At length a day came when, one of his friends being admitted, urged him strongly to be consoled, and to resume his former place in society. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/28/84/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/28/) / 84 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 84 At length a day came when, one of his friends being admitted, urged him strongly to be consoled, and to resume his former place in society. **What happens:** come, admit, urge, console, resume · **To what, where:** length, friends, vizir, former place, society This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg128:28:84 # text = At length a day came when, one of his friends being admitted, urged him strongly to be consoled, and to resume his former place in society. 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod:unmarked _ _ 5 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 conj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 12 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 admitted admit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 urged urge VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 iobj _ _ 17 strongly strongly ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 19 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 consoled console VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 resume resume VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 former former ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 society society NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | | | | length a day | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location | | 2 | **admit** *speech: other* | gerund · passive | | vizir's friends *not said here* | | | | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S» | | 3 | **urge** | past | | | vizir | | | strongly *property* | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 4 | **console** | to-infinitive · passive | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | | 5 | **resume** | to-infinitive | | vizir's former place | | society | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Eventuality | 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 83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/28/83/) - next →: [sentence 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/28/85/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/28/)