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title: Then quantities of aloes wood, camphor, and pistachio-nuts; and last… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Then quantities of aloes wood, camphor, and pistachio-nuts; and lastly, a beautiful slave girl, whose robes glittered with precious stones. Who acts: robes. 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 22

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Then quantities of aloes wood, camphor, and pistachio-nuts; and lastly, a beautiful slave girl, whose robes glittered with precious stones.

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**Who acts:** robes · **What happens:** glitter

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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: who acts (robes), 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:pg128:18:22
# text = Then quantities of aloes wood, camphor, and pistachio-nuts; and lastly, a beautiful slave girl, whose robes glittered with precious stones.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	quantities	quantity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	aloes	aloe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	compound	_	_
5	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	camphor	camphor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	pistachio	pistachio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	lastly	lastly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	glittered	glitter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glitter** | past | robes |  |  |  |  | with precious stones | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with stone=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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