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title: He spent his days working in the garden, and his nights thinking of… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: He spent his days working in the garden, and his nights thinking of and sighing for his beloved wife. Who acts: Prince, nights. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 4

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He spent his days working in the garden, and his nights thinking of and sighing for his beloved wife.

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**Who acts:** Prince, nights · **What happens:** spend, work, think, sigh

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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 (Prince, nights), 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:pg128:26:4
# text = He spent his days working in the garden, and his nights thinking of and sighing for his beloved wife.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	sighing	sigh	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	beloved	beloved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | past | Prince |  |  |  | day |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **work** | gerund | Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in the garden | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in garden=Theme |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Prince's nights |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sigh** | gerund | Prince's nights *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Prince's beloved wife | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for wife=Recipient |

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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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