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title: The body, decked in rich robes and sparkling with jewels, was laid u… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The body, decked in rich robes and sparkling with jewels, was laid upon an open bier, and the procession started, taking its way to a high mountain at some distance from the city, the wretched husband, clothed from head to foot in a black mantle, following mournfully. Who acts: procession. A sentenc
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 35

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The body, decked in rich robes and sparkling with jewels, was laid upon an open bier, and the procession started, taking its way to a high mountain at some distance from the city, the wretched husband, clothed from head to foot in a black mantle, following mournfully.

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**Who acts:** procession · **What happens:** deck, sparkle, lay, start, take, clothe · **To what, where:** body, open bier, way, high mountain, wretched husband, head

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (procession), 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:pg128:16:35
# text = The body, decked in rich robes and sparkling with jewels, was laid upon an open bier, and the procession started, taking its way to a high mountain at some distance from the city, the wretched husband, clothed from head to foot in a black mantle, following mournfully.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	decked	deck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	sparkling	sparkle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	bier	bier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	procession	procession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	34	det	_	_
34	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	wretched	wretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	clothed	clothe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	acl	_	_
44	from	from	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
46	to	to	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
53	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	conj	_	_
54	mournfully	mournfully	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deck** | participle |  | the body *not said here* |  |  |  | in rich robes | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in robe=Theme |
| 2 | **sparkle** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with jewels | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with jewel=Theme |
| 3 | **lay** | past · passive |  | the body |  | a open bier |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon bier=Destination |
| 4 | **start** | past | the procession |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **take** | gerund | the procession *not said here* | procession's way |  | a high mountain |  | at some distance from the city | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme to mountain=Destination |
| 6 | **clothe** | participle |  | the wretched husband *not said here* |  | head |  | to foot; in a black mantle | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «Passive»: agent=Pivot in mantle=Theme |
| 7 | **follow** | gerund | the procession *not said here* |  |  |  |  | mournfully *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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