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title: In the middle you shall build me a large hall with a dome, its four… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: In the middle you shall build me a large hall with a dome, its four walls of massy gold and silver, each side having six windows, whose lattices, all except one, which is to be left unfinished, must be set with diamonds and rubies. Who acts: you, side. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainment
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 111

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In the middle you shall build me a large hall with a dome, its four walls of massy gold and silver, each side having six windows, whose lattices, all except one, which is to be left unfinished, must be set with diamonds and rubies.

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**Who acts:** you, side · **What happens:** build, have, leave, set · **To what, where:** large hall, me, middle, six windows, dome

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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 (you, side), 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:pg128:31:111
# text = In the middle you shall build me a large hall with a dome, its four walls of massy gold and silver, each side having six windows, whose lattices, all except one, which is to be left unfinished, must be set with diamonds and rubies.
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	6	obl	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	dome	dome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	massy	massy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
26	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
27	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	lattices	lattice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	conj	_	_
34	except	except	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux:pass	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
40	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	_
42	unfinished	unfinished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
45	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	aux:pass	_	_
46	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
47	with	with	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	rubies	ruby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | shall | you | a large hall | me | the middle |  | with a dome and middle's four walls of massy gold and silver and each side | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary hall=Product |
| 2 | **have** | gerund | each side *not said here* | six windows and six windows and six windows's lattices's lattices |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Patient |
| 3 | **leave** | present · passive |  | a dome and middle's four walls of massy gold and silver and each side |  |  |  | unfinished *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **set** | must · passive |  |  |  |  |  | with diamonds and rubies | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: with diamond=Instrument |

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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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