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title: Within the palace he heard some music, as of many instruments cunnin… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Within the palace he heard some music, as of many instruments cunningly played, and the melodious warble of nightingales and other birds, and by this, and the appetising smell of many dainty dishes of which he presently became aware, he judged that feasting and merry making were going on. Who acts: 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 7

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Within the palace he heard some music, as of many instruments cunningly played, and the melodious warble of nightingales and other birds, and by this, and the appetising smell of many dainty dishes of which he presently became aware, he judged that feasting and merry making were going on.

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**Who acts:** perfume, many instruments, appetising smell, feasting, many dainty dishes · **What happens:** hear, play, appetis, become, judge, make · **To what, where:** music, melodious warble

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (perfume, many instruments, appetising smell, feasting), 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:pg128:13:7
# text = Within the palace he heard some music, as of many instruments cunningly played, and the melodious warble of nightingales and other birds, and by this, and the appetising smell of many dainty dishes of which he presently became aware, he judged that feasting and merry making were going on.
1	Within	within	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	instruments	instrument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	cunningly	cunningly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	melodious	melodious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	warble	warble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	nightingales	nightingale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	appetising	appetis	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	amod	_	_
33	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	dainty	dainty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	obl	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	_
43	aware	aware	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	judged	judge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
47	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
48	feasting	feasting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	conj	_	_
51	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	48	acl	_	_
52	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
53	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	46	advcl	_	_
54	on	on	ADP	RP	_	53	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | perfume | some music |  |  |  | within the palace | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer music=Stimulus |
| 2 | **play** | past | many instruments | the melodious warble of nightingales and other birds |  |  |  | by this; cunningly *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **appetis** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **become** | past | perfume |  |  |  |  | of many dainty dishes; aware, presently *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **judge** | past | the appetising smell of many dainty dishes |  |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **make** | gerund | feasting *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 7 | **go on** | past · progressive | feasting |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **smell** |  | many dainty dishes |  |  |  |  |  | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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