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title: The translations are by the writers of the tales in the Fairy Books,… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The translations are by the writers of the tales in the Fairy Books, and the pictures are by Mr. Ford. Who acts: translations, pictures. 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 42

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The translations are by the writers of the tales in the Fairy Books, and the pictures are by Mr. Ford.

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**Who acts:** translations, pictures · **What happens:** be

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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 (translations, pictures), 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:pg128:1:42
# text = The translations are by the writers of the tales in the Fairy Books, and the pictures are by Mr. Ford.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	translations	translation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	writers	writer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Books	Book	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:desc	_	_
21	Ford	Ford	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	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 translations |  |  |  |  | by the writers; of the tales in the Fairy Books | tree rules |
| 2 | **does** | present | the pictures |  |  |  |  | by Ford  Mr. | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by ford=Location |

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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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