--- title: Covered from head to foot with mire and streaming with blood he rose… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: Covered from head to foot with mire and streaming with blood he rose, and leaning on two of his slaves went straight to the palace, where he demanded an audience of the king, to whom he related what had taken place in these words: Who acts: Noureddin, leaning. 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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 (Noureddin, leaning), 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:pg128:29:25 # text = Covered from head to foot with mire and streaming with blood he rose, and leaning on two of his slaves went straight to the palace, where he demanded an audience of the king, to whom he related what had taken place in these words: 1 Covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 2 from from ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 mire mire NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 streaming stream VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 16 leaning lean VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 csubj _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 obl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 slaves slave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 22 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 23 straight straight ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 30 advmod _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 demanded demand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 31 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 audience audience NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 22 obl _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 related relate VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 acl:relcl _ _ 41 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 43 nsubj:pass _ _ 42 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 xcomp _ _ 44 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 45 in in ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 47 det _ _ 47 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 : : PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cover** | participle | | | | head | | to foot with mire | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **stream** | gerund | | | | | | with blood | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with blood=Theme | | 3 | **rise** | past | Noureddin | blood *not said here* | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blood=Theme | | 4 | **lean** | gerund | | | | two | | of Noureddin's slaves | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on two=Location | | 5 | **go** | past | leaning | | | the palace | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial\_Location to whom=Destination | | 6 | **demand** *speech: request* | past | Noureddin | a audience of the king | | | | | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme audience=Precondition | | 7 | **relate** | past | Noureddin | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **take** | past · perfect · passive | | place | | this words | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme place=Destination | 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. - 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