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title: In the kingdom of Kashgar, which is, as everybody knows, situated on… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: In the kingdom of Kashgar, which is, as everybody knows, situated on the frontiers of Great Tartary, there lived long ago a tailor and his wife who loved each other very much. Who acts: everybody, wife. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19, with its depe
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 23

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In the kingdom of Kashgar, which is, as everybody knows, situated on the frontiers of Great Tartary, there lived long ago a tailor and his wife who loved each other very much.

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**Who acts:** everybody, wife · **What happens:** be, situate, live, love · **To what, where:** kingdom, frontiers, tailor, each

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everybody, wife), 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:pg128:19:23
# text = In the kingdom of Kashgar, which is, as everybody knows, situated on the frontiers of Great Tartary, there lived long ago a tailor and his wife who loved each other very much.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Kashgar	Kashgar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	12	nsubj	_	_
12	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	situated	situate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	frontiers	frontier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Tartary	Tartary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
22	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	23	expl	_	_
23	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
25	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
31	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
33	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	32	obj	_	_
34	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	fixed	_	_
35	very	very	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	much	much	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	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 | **is** | present | everybody |  |  |  |  | know *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **situate** | participle |  | the kingdom of Kashgar *not said here* |  | the frontiers of Great Tartary |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on frontier=Destination |
| 3 | **live** | past |  | a tailor and Tartary's wife |  | the kingdom of Kashgar; there |  | ago *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme tailor=Location |
| 4 | **love** | past | Tartary's wife | each |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus |

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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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