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title: In this book "The Arabian Nights" are translated from the French ver… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: In this book "The Arabian Nights" are translated from the French version of Monsieur Galland, who dropped out the poetry and a great deal of what the Arabian authors thought funny, though it seems wearisome to us. Who acts: French version, Arabian authors, it. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Enter
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 40

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In this book "The Arabian Nights" are translated from the French version of Monsieur Galland, who dropped out the poetry and a great deal of what the Arabian authors thought funny, though it seems wearisome to us.

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**Who acts:** French version, Arabian authors, it · **What happens:** translate, drop out, think, seem, deal · **To what, where:** Arabian Nights, book, poetry

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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 (French version, Arabian authors, it), 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:pg128:1:40
# text = In this book "The Arabian Nights" are translated from the French version of Monsieur Galland, who dropped out the poetry and a great deal of what the Arabian authors thought funny, though it seems wearisome to us.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	translated	translate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:agent	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Monsieur	Monsieur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	Galland	Galland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	poetry	poetry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	authors	author	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
33	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
34	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
39	wearisome	wearisome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	xcomp	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **translate** | present · passive | the French version of Monsieur | the Arabian Nights |  | this book |  |  | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **drop out** | past | the French version of Monsieur | the poetry and a great deal of the poetry and a great deal of the poetry |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poetry=Theme |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the Arabian authors |  |  |  |  | funny *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **seem** | present | it |  |  |  |  | wearisome *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **deal** |  |  | the poetry and a great deal of the poetry and a great deal |  |  |  |  | nom deal «act transitive»: of=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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