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title: They are all most sumptuously furnished, whilst the gardens surround… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: They are all most sumptuously furnished, whilst the gardens surrounding them are laid out with exquisite taste. Who acts: gardens. 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 30

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They are all most sumptuously furnished, whilst the gardens surrounding them are laid out with exquisite taste.

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**Who acts:** gardens · **What happens:** furnish, surround, lay out · **To what, where:** palaces, gardens

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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 (gardens), 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:pg128:23:30
# text = They are all most sumptuously furnished, whilst the gardens surrounding them are laid out with exquisite taste.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	sumptuously	sumptuously	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	furnished	furnish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	surrounding	surround	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	exquisite	exquisite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **furnish** | present · passive |  | palaces *= palace* |  |  |  | all, sumptuously *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **surround** | gerund | the gardens *not said here* | palaces *= palace* |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **lay out** | present · passive |  | the gardens |  |  |  | with exquisite taste | vn create-26.4 «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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