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title: While he was gone Noureddin and the Persian wandered through the gar… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: While he was gone Noureddin and the Persian wandered through the gardens and went up the white marble staircase of the pavilion as far as the locked door of the saloon. Who acts: Ibrahim, gone Noureddin. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29, with its dep
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 64

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While he was gone Noureddin and the Persian wandered through the gardens and went up the white marble staircase of the pavilion as far as the locked door of the saloon.

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**Who acts:** Ibrahim, gone Noureddin · **What happens:** be, wander, go up, lock · **To what, where:** gone Noureddin, gardens, white marble staircase

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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 (Ibrahim, gone Noureddin), 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:pg128:29:64
# text = While he was gone Noureddin and the Persian wandered through the gardens and went up the white marble staircase of the pavilion as far as the locked door of the saloon.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Persian	Persian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	marble	marble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	staircase	staircase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	pavilion	pavilion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	as	as	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	locked	lock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
28	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	saloon	saloon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	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 | Ibrahim | gone Noureddin and the Persian |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wander** | past | gone Noureddin and the Persian |  |  | the gardens |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through garden=Trajectory |
| 3 | **go up** | past | gone Noureddin and the Persian *not said here* | the white marble staircase of the pavilion |  |  |  | as the locked door of the saloon | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **lock** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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