--- title: Bowing low, he waited, as was his duty, till his master spoke, but H… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: Bowing low, he waited, as was his duty, till his master spoke, but Haroun-al-Raschid merely turned his head and looked at him, and sank back into his former weary posture. Who acts: Giafar, master, Haroun. 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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 (Giafar, master, Haroun), 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:pg128:32:114 # text = Bowing low, he waited, as was his duty, till his master spoke, but Haroun-al-Raschid merely turned his head and looked at him, and sank back into his former weary posture. 1 Bowing bow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 2 low low ADV RB Degree=Pos 1 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 waited wait VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 as as ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 duty duty NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 till till SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 18 Haroun Haroun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 al Al PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 Raschid Raschid PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 23 merely merely ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 29 at at ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 sank sink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 34 back back ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 35 into into ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 36 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 37 former former ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 38 weary weary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 posture posture NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bow** | gerund | Giafar *not said here* | | | | | low *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **wait** | past | Giafar | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | past | Giafar *not said here* | | | | | as Giafar's duty | tree rules | | 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Giafar's master | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **turn** | past | Haroun and Raschid | Giafar's head | | | | merely *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 6 | **look** | past | Haroun and Raschid *not said here* | | | | | at Giafar | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | | 7 | **sink back** | past | Giafar *not said here* | | | Giafar's former weary posture | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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 113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/32/113/) - next →: [sentence 115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/32/115/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/32/)