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title: In the middle of it was a vast pavilion, whose superb saloon had eig… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: In the middle of it was a vast pavilion, whose superb saloon had eighty windows, each window having a lustre, lit solely when the Caliph spent the evening there. Who acts: superb saloon, window, Caliph. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29, with its depe
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 54

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In the middle of it was a vast pavilion, whose superb saloon had eighty windows, each window having a lustre, lit solely when the Caliph spent the evening there.

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**Who acts:** superb saloon, window, Caliph · **What happens:** be, have, lit, spend · **To what, where:** vast pavilion, middle, eighty windows, lustre

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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 (superb saloon, window, Caliph), 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:pg128:29:54
# text = In the middle of it was a vast pavilion, whose superb saloon had eighty windows, each window having a lustre, lit solely when the Caliph spent the evening there.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	pavilion	pavilion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	superb	superb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	saloon	saloon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	eighty	eighty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
20	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	lustre	lustre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	_
25	solely	solely	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | a vast pavilion |  | the middle of middle |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | superb saloon | eighty windows |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | each window *not said here* | a lustre |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lustre=Patient |
| 4 | **lit** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | solely *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **spend** | past | the Caliph |  |  | there | evening |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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