---
title: Peace dawned upon his mind like the radiance of the morning: he retu… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: Peace dawned upon his mind like the radiance of the morning: he returned to his labour with cheerfulness; his devotion became fervent and habitual: and the latter days of Hassan were happier than the first. Who acts: Peace, devotion, latter days, morning. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the enter
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/8/38/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Oriental tales, for the entertainment…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/) / [The Story of Omar.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/8/) / 38

# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 38

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Peace dawned upon his mind like the radiance of the morning: he returned to his labour with cheerfulness; his devotion became fervent and habitual: and the latter days of Hassan were happier than the first.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Peace, devotion, latter days, morning · **What happens:** dawn, return, become, be, mind, radiate · **To what, where:** mind

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Omar.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peace, devotion, latter days, morning), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62868:8:38
# text = Peace dawned upon his mind like the radiance of the morning: he returned to his labour with cheerfulness; his devotion became fervent and habitual: and the latter days of Hassan were happier than the first.
1	Peace	Peace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dawned	dawn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	radiance	radiance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	cheerfulness	cheerfulness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	devotion	devotion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
24	fervent	fervent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	habitual	habitual	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Hassan	Hassan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	happier	happy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	conj	_	_
36	than	than	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dawn** | past | Peace |  |  | Peace's mind |  | like the radiance of the morning | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon mind=Location |
| 2 | **return** | past | Peace |  |  |  |  | to Peace's labour with cheerfulness *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to labour=Result |
| 3 | **become** | past | Peace's devotion |  |  |  |  | fervent *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past | the latter days of Hassan |  |  |  |  | than the first; happy *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **mind** |  | Peace |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **radiate** |  | the morning |  |  |  |  |  | nom radiance «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |
| 7 | **devote** |  | Peace |  |  |  |  |  | nom devotion «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/8/37/)
- next →: [Story of a Dervise., 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/9/1/)
- ↑ back to [The Story of Omar.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/8/)