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title: Wandering along the banks of the Tigris, they skirted a garden enclo… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Wandering along the banks of the Tigris, they skirted a garden enclosed by a high wall. Who acts: neighbours. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 50

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Wandering along the banks of the Tigris, they skirted a garden enclosed by a high wall.

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**Who acts:** neighbours · **What happens:** wonder, skirt, enclose · **To what, where:** garden

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neighbours), 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:pg128:29:50
# text = Wandering along the banks of the Tigris, they skirted a garden enclosed by a high wall.
1	Wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
2	along	along	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Tigris	Tigris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	skirted	skirt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	enclosed	enclose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | neighbours *= neighbour* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | along the banks of the Tigris | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **skirt** | past | neighbours *= neighbour* | a garden |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme garden=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **enclose** | participle |  | a garden *not said here* |  |  |  | by a high wall | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

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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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