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title: The first palace is entirely composed of rock crystal, the second of… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The first palace is entirely composed of rock crystal, the second of bronze, the third of fine steel, the fourth of another and more precious species of bronze, the fifth of touchstone, the sixth of silver, and the seventh of solid gold. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew La
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 29

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The first palace is entirely composed of rock crystal, the second of bronze, the third of fine steel, the fourth of another and more precious species of bronze, the fifth of touchstone, the sixth of silver, and the seventh of solid gold.

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**What happens:** compose · **To what, where:** first palace

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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: 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:pg128:23:29
# text = The first palace is entirely composed of rock crystal, the second of bronze, the third of fine steel, the fourth of another and more precious species of bronze, the fifth of touchstone, the sixth of silver, and the seventh of solid gold.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	composed	compose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	crystal	crystal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	bronze	bronze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fourth	fourth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	28	advmod	_	_
28	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	species	species	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	bronze	bronze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	fifth	fifth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	touchstone	touchstone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	sixth	sixth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	seventh	seventh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	solid	solid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compose** | present · passive |  | the first palace |  |  |  | of rock crystal and the third of fine steel and the fourth of another and precious species of bronze and the fifth of touchstone and the sixth of silver; entirely *property* | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |

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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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