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title: Once home he said to the genie: "Build me a palace of the finest mar… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Once home he said to the genie: "Build me a palace of the finest marble, set with jasper, agate, and other precious stones. Who acts: Aladdin. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 110

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Once home he said to the genie: "Build me a palace of the finest marble, set with jasper, agate, and other precious stones.

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**Who acts:** Aladdin · **What happens:** say, build · **To what, where:** genie, palace, Aladdin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aladdin), 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:pg128:31:110
# text = Once home he said to the genie: "Build me a palace of the finest marble, set with jasper, agate, and other precious stones.
1	Once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	advcl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	genie	genie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
17	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	jasper	jasper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	agate	agate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Aladdin |  | the genie |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to genie=Recipient |
| 2 | **build** *in a quote* | infinitive | Aladdin *not said here* | a palace of the finest marble | Aladdin |  |  | other precious stones *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary palace=Product |

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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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