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title: Then more beds of different fashion, and an agate vase carved with t… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Then more beds of different fashion, and an agate vase carved with the figure of a man aiming an arrow at a lion, and finally a costly table, which had once belonged to King Solomon. Who acts: man. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18, with its dependenc
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 62

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Then more beds of different fashion, and an agate vase carved with the figure of a man aiming an arrow at a lion, and finally a costly table, which had once belonged to King Solomon.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** carve, aim, belong, figure · **To what, where:** more beds, arrow, costly table, King Solomon, man

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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 (man), 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:pg128:18:62
# text = Then more beds of different fashion, and an agate vase carved with the figure of a man aiming an arrow at a lion, and finally a costly table, which had once belonged to King Solomon.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	fashion	fashion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	agate	agate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	vase	vase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	carved	carve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	aiming	aim	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	costly	costly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	35	advmod	_	_
35	belonged	belong	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	conj	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carve** | participle · passive |  | more beds of different fashion |  |  |  | with the figure of a man and a costly table | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with figure=Instrument |
| 2 | **aim** | gerund | a man *not said here* | a arrow |  |  |  | at a lion | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot arrow=Theme |
| 3 | **belong** | past · perfect · passive |  | a costly table | King Solomon |  |  | once *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **figure** |  |  | a man |  |  |  |  | nom figure «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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