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title: At night the whole town was filled with rejoicings, and with much po… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: At night the whole town was filled with rejoicings, and with much pomp the Princess Haiatelnefous (this was the name of the king's daughter) was conducted to the palace of the Princess Badoura. Who acts: this. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26, with i
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 31

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At night the whole town was filled with rejoicings, and with much pomp the Princess Haiatelnefous (this was the name of the king's daughter) was conducted to the palace of the Princess Badoura.

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**Who acts:** this · **What happens:** fill, be, conduct · **To what, where:** whole town, name, Princess Haiatelnefous, palace

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg128:26:31
# text = At night the whole town was filled with rejoicings, and with much pomp the Princess Haiatelnefous (this was the name of the king's daughter) was conducted to the palace of the Princess Badoura.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	rejoicings	rejoicing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	pomp	pomp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Haiatelnefous	Haiatelnefous	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	conducted	conduct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	Badoura	Badoura	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | past · passive |  | the whole town |  |  | night | with rejoicings | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with rejoicing=Instrument |
| 2 | **is a** | past | this | the name |  |  |  | of the king's daughter | tree rules |
| 3 | **conduct** | past · passive |  | the Princess Haiatelnefous |  | the palace of the Princess Badoura |  | with much pomp | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to palace=Destination |

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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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