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title: Now "The Arabian Nights," some of which, but not nearly all, are giv… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Now "The Arabian Nights," some of which, but not nearly all, are given in this volume, are only fairy tales of the East. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 20

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Now "The Arabian Nights," some of which, but not nearly all, are given in this volume, are only fairy tales of the East.

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**What happens:** give, be · **To what, where:** all, volume, fairy tales

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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: 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:pg128:1:20
# text = Now "The Arabian Nights," some of which, but not nearly all, are given in this volume, are only fairy tales of the East.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Nights	Night	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
14	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	volume	volume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · passive |  | all |  | this volume |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | some fairy tales |  |  |  | of the East | tree rules |

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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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