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title: Sometimes it was an orchard, whose fruit far exceeded in bigness any… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes it was an orchard, whose fruit far exceeded in bigness any that grew in my father's garden. Who acts: chance, orchard, that. 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 67

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Sometimes it was an orchard, whose fruit far exceeded in bigness any that grew in my father's garden.

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**Who acts:** chance, orchard, that · **What happens:** be, exceed, grow · **To what, where:** orchard, garden

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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 (chance, orchard, that), 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:pg128:12:67
# text = Sometimes it was an orchard, whose fruit far exceeded in bigness any that grew in my father's garden.
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	orchard	orchard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
10	exceeded	exceed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	bigness	bigness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	any	any	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj	_	_
15	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | chance | a orchard and a orchard and a orchard's fruit's fruit |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **exceed** | past | a orchard and a orchard and a orchard's fruit's fruit |  |  |  |  | in bigness; far *property* | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in bigness=Attribute |
| 3 | **grow** | past | that |  |  | my father's garden |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=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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