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title: His saddle and bridle were of massive gold, curiously wrought; one s… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: His saddle and bridle were of massive gold, curiously wrought; one side of his trough was filled with clean barley and sesame, and the other with rose water. Who acts: saddle. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 79

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His saddle and bridle were of massive gold, curiously wrought; one side of his trough was filled with clean barley and sesame, and the other with rose water.

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**Who acts:** saddle · **What happens:** be, fill · **To what, where:** one side

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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 (saddle), 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:pg128:12:79
# text = His saddle and bridle were of massive gold, curiously wrought; one side of his trough was filled with clean barley and sesame, and the other with rose water.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	bridle	bridle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	curiously	curiously	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	wrought	wrought	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	trough	trough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	barley	barley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	sesame	sesame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | animal's saddle and bridle |  |  |  |  | of massive gold | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | animal's saddle and bridle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | curiously *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **fill** | past · passive |  | one side |  |  |  | of animal's trough; with clean barley and sesame | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with barley=Instrument |
| 4 | **be** |  | animal's saddle and bridle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with rose water | tree rules |

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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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