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title: In this book the stories are shortened here and there, and omissions… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: In this book the stories are shortened here and there, and omissions are made of pieces only suitable for Arabs and old gentlemen. 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 41

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In this book the stories are shortened here and there, and omissions are made of pieces only suitable for Arabs and old gentlemen.

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**What happens:** shorten, make · **To what, where:** stories, book, omissions

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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:pg128:1:41
# text = In this book the stories are shortened here and there, and omissions are made of pieces only suitable for Arabs and old gentlemen.
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	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	shortened	shorten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	omissions	omission	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
18	only	only	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	suitable	suitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Arabs	Arab	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shorten** | present · passive |  | the stories |  | this book; here |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | present · passive |  | omissions |  |  |  | of pieces for suitable Arabs and old gentlemen | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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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