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title: The island of Serendib being situated on the equinoctial line, the d… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The island of Serendib being situated on the equinoctial line, the days and nights there are of equal length. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 10

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The island of Serendib being situated on the equinoctial line, the days and nights there are of equal length.

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**What happens:** situate, be · **To what, where:** island, equinoctial line

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg128:18:10
# text = The island of Serendib being situated on the equinoctial line, the days and nights there are of equal length.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Serendib	Serendib	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	situated	situate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	equinoctial	equinoctial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **situate** | gerund · passive |  | the island of Serendib |  | the equinoctial line and the days and nights |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on line=Destination |
| 2 | **be** | present |  |  |  | there |  | of equal length | vn exist-47.1 «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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