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title: They were delighted with Ghouls (who lived among the tombs) and Geni… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: They were delighted with Ghouls (who lived among the tombs) and Geni, who seemed to be a kind of ogres, and with Princesses who work magic spells, and with Peris, who are Arab fairies. Who acts: People, Ghouls, Geni, Princesses. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Openi
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 34

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They were delighted with Ghouls (who lived among the tombs) and Geni, who seemed to be a kind of ogres, and with Princesses who work magic spells, and with Peris, who are Arab fairies.

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**Who acts:** People, Ghouls, Geni, Princesses · **What happens:** be, live, seem, work · **To what, where:** tombs, kind, magic spells, Arab fairies

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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 (People, Ghouls, Geni, Princesses), 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:pg128:1:34
# text = They were delighted with Ghouls (who lived among the tombs) and Geni, who seemed to be a kind of ogres, and with Princesses who work magic spells, and with Peris, who are Arab fairies.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Ghouls	Ghoul	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	among	among	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tombs	tomb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	Geni	Geni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	xcomp	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	ogres	ogre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Princesses	princess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	spells	spell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Peris	Peris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	40	nsubj	_	_
38	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
39	Arab	Arab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | People |  |  |  |  | with Ghouls; delighted *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | past | Ghouls |  |  | the tombs |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among tomb=Location |
| 3 | **seem** | past | Geni |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive | Geni *not said here* | a kind and Princesses |  |  |  | of ogres | tree rules |
| 5 | **work** | present | Princesses | magic spells |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent spell=Material |
| 6 | **is a** | present |  | Arab fairies |  |  |  | with Peris | 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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