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title: The changes are only in matters of manners and customs; such as wear… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The changes are only in matters of manners and customs; such as wearing clothes or not, meeting lions who talk in the warm countries, or talking bears in the cold countries. Who acts: changes, meeting lions. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1, with its 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 15

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The changes are only in matters of manners and customs; such as wearing clothes or not, meeting lions who talk in the warm countries, or talking bears in the cold countries.

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**Who acts:** changes, meeting lions · **What happens:** be, wear, meet, talk · **To what, where:** matters, warm countries

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (changes, meeting lions), 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:pg128:1:15
# text = The changes are only in matters of manners and customs; such as wearing clothes or not, meeting lions who talk in the warm countries, or talking bears in the cold countries.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	changes	change	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	matters	matter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	manners	manners	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	customs	custom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	15	case	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	6	conj	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	meeting	meet	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	amod	_	_
20	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	talk	talk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	amod	_	_
30	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the changes |  |  | matters and wearing clothes and meeting lions or talking bears in the cold countries |  | of manners and customs | tree rules |
| 2 | **wear** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **meet** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **talk** | present | meeting lions |  |  | the warm countries |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **talk** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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