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title: I could not rest as long as one solitary camel remained to the dervi… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I could not rest as long as one solitary camel remained to the dervish; and returning to him I redoubled my prayers and embraces, and promises of eternal gratitude, till the last twenty were in my hands. Who acts: I, my. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 86

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I could not rest as long as one solitary camel remained to the dervish; and returning to him I redoubled my prayers and embraces, and promises of eternal gratitude, till the last twenty were in my hands.

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**Who acts:** I, my · **What happens:** not rest, remain, return, redouble, be, pray · **To what, where:** one solitary camel, proverb, prayers, eternal gratitude

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, my), 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:pg128:33:86
# text = I could not rest as long as one solitary camel remained to the dervish; and returning to him I redoubled my prayers and embraces, and promises of eternal gratitude, till the last twenty were in my hands.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	solitary	solitary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	camel	camel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	dervish	dervish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	returning	return	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	csubj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	redoubled	redouble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	embraces	embrace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	promises	promise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	eternal	eternal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
33	till	till	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
35	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
36	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	nummod	_	_
37	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **rest** | could | I |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **remain** | participle |  | one solitary camel *not said here* |  |  |  | to the dervish | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **return** | gerund |  |  | proverb |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to he=Result |
| 4 | **redouble** | past | I | my prayers and embraces |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent prayer=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  | till my last twenty hands |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **pray** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **promise** |  |  | eternal gratitude |  |  |  |  | nom promise «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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