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title: For seven days the whole nation mourned, and then the ashes of the p… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: For seven days the whole nation mourned, and then the ashes of the princess were buried with great pomp, and a superb tomb was raised over her. Who acts: whole nation. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 5

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For seven days the whole nation mourned, and then the ashes of the princess were buried with great pomp, and a superb tomb was raised over her.

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**Who acts:** whole nation · **What happens:** mourn, bury, raise · **To what, where:** ashes, superb tomb

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole nation), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg128:935`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg128:11:5
# text = For seven days the whole nation mourned, and then the ashes of the princess were buried with great pomp, and a superb tomb was raised over her.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	mourned	mourn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	pomp	pomp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	superb	superb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	tomb	tomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	raised	raise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
28	over	over	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mourn** | past | the whole nation |  |  |  | day |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **bury** | past · passive |  | the ashes of the princess |  |  | then | with great pomp | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **raise** | past · passive |  | a superb tomb |  |  |  | over princess | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme over she=Destination |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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