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title: But in order to give her variety in her confinement he has built her… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: But in order to give her variety in her confinement he has built her seven palaces such as have never been seen before. Who acts: Danhasch, imagination. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 28

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But in order to give her variety in her confinement he has built her seven palaces such as have never been seen before.

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**Who acts:** Danhasch, imagination · **What happens:** give, build, not see, confine · **To what, where:** variety, confinement, seven palaces

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Danhasch, imagination), 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:pg128:23:28
# text = But in order to give her variety in her confinement he has built her seven palaces such as have never been seen before.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	5	mark	_	_
3	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	fixed	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	variety	variety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	confinement	confinement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	palaces	palace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	as	a	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
21	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	ccomp	_	_
23	before	before	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | to-infinitive |  | imagination's variety |  | imagination's confinement |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent variety=Theme |
| 2 | **build** | present · perfect | Danhasch | imagination's confinement *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **see** | present · perfect · passive |  | imagination's seven palaces and such as |  |  |  | before *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 4 | **confine** |  | imagination |  |  |  |  |  | nom confinement «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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