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title: Now there was a deep well in the tower in which Prince Camaralzaman… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Now there was a deep well in the tower in which Prince Camaralzaman was imprisoned, and this well was a favourite resort of the fairy Maimoune, daughter of Damriat, chief of a legion of genii. Who acts: deep well, this. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 8

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Now there was a deep well in the tower in which Prince Camaralzaman was imprisoned, and this well was a favourite resort of the fairy Maimoune, daughter of Damriat, chief of a legion of genii.

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**Who acts:** deep well, this · **What happens:** be, imprison · **To what, where:** Camaralzaman, tower, favourite resort

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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 (deep well, this), 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:pg128:23:8
# text = Now there was a deep well in the tower in which Prince Camaralzaman was imprisoned, and this well was a favourite resort of the fairy Maimoune, daughter of Damriat, chief of a legion of genii.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obl	_	_
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:desc	_	_
13	Camaralzaman	Camaralzaman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	imprisoned	imprison	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	nsubj	_	_
19	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	favourite	favourite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	resort	resort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	Maimoune	Maimoune	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Damriat	Damriat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	legion	legion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	genii	genii	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a deep well in the tower |  |  | there | now |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **imprison** | past · passive |  | Camaralzaman  Prince |  | the tower |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in which=Destination |
| 3 | **is a** | past | this | a favourite resort |  |  |  | of the fairy and daughter of Damriat and chief of a legion of genii; well *property* | tree rules |

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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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