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title: In one house was a father weeping for the loss of his daughter, in a… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: In one house was a father weeping for the loss of his daughter, in another perhaps a mother trembling for the fate of her child; and instead of the blessings that had formerly been heaped on the Sultan's head, the air was now full of curses. Who acts: mother, air. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights E
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 55

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In one house was a father weeping for the loss of his daughter, in another perhaps a mother trembling for the fate of her child; and instead of the blessings that had formerly been heaped on the Sultan's head, the air was now full of curses.

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**Who acts:** mother, air · **What happens:** be, tremble, heap, fate · **To what, where:** father weeping, one house, blessings, head, child

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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 (mother, air), 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:pg128:1:55
# text = In one house was a father weeping for the loss of his daughter, in another perhaps a mother trembling for the fate of her child; and instead of the blessings that had formerly been heaped on the Sultan's head, the air was now full of curses.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	weeping	weeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
17	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
20	trembling	tremble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	32	case	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	fixed	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	blessings	blessing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	obj	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
35	formerly	formerly	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
36	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	heaped	heap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl:relcl	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	's	's	PART	POS	_	40	case	_	_
42	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
46	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
47	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	48	advmod	_	_
48	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	curses	curse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | a father weeping and another mother and the blessings |  | one house |  | for the loss of Town's daughter | tree rules |
| 2 | **tremble** | gerund | another mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the fate of behaviour's child | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **heap** | past · perfect · passive |  | the blessings |  | the Sultan's head |  | formerly *property* | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: that=Theme on head=Destination |
| 4 | **is** | past | the air |  |  |  | now | of curses; full *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **fate** |  |  | behaviour's child |  |  |  |  | nom fate «event 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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