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title: At these words he rose, and went to a closet, from which he brought… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: At these words he rose, and went to a closet, from which he brought out ten basins, all covered with blue stuff. Who acts: man, ten basins. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 16

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At these words he rose, and went to a closet, from which he brought out ten basins, all covered with blue stuff.

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**Who acts:** man, ten basins · **What happens:** rise, go, bring out, cover · **To what, where:** words, closet, ten basins, all

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, ten basins), 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:pg128:12:16
# text = At these words he rose, and went to a closet, from which he brought out ten basins, all covered with blue stuff.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	closet	closet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obl	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	out	out	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	basins	basin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | man |  |  | this words |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at word=Location |
| 2 | **go** | past | man *not said here* |  |  | a closet |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to closet=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **bring out** | past | man | ten basins |  |  |  | out *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent basin=Patient |
| 4 | **cover** | participle · passive | ten basins *not said here* | all |  |  |  | with blue stuff | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with stuff=Theme |

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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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