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title: At length, seeing that the sun was about to set, Sadia said to the p… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: At length, seeing that the sun was about to set, Sadia said to the porter, "Rise and go; it is now time for us to separate." Who acts: length, sun, Sadia, us. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 38

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At length, seeing that the sun was about to set, Sadia said to the porter, "Rise and go; it is now time for us to separate."

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**Who acts:** length, sun, Sadia, us · **What happens:** see, be, set, say, rise, go · **To what, where:** porter, length, time · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (length, sun, Sadia, us), 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:pg128:6:38
# text = At length, seeing that the sun was about to set, Sadia said to the porter, "Rise and go; it is now time for us to separate."
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	about	about	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	Sadia	Sadia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	porter	porter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Rise	rise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
27	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
28	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	separate	separate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund | length *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | the sun |  |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **set** | to-infinitive | the sun *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Sadia |  | the porter | length |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to porter=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **rise** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | sun | time |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **separate** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | us |  |  |  |  |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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