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title: A few moments later they both re-entered the hall, disguised as fore… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: A few moments later they both re-entered the hall, disguised as foreign merchants, and passed through a secret door, out into the open country. Who acts: Caliph. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 120

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A few moments later they both re-entered the hall, disguised as foreign merchants, and passed through a secret door, out into the open country.

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**Who acts:** Caliph · **What happens:** re-enter, disguise, pass · **To what, where:** hall, secret door

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg128:32:120
# text = A few moments later they both re-entered the hall, disguised as foreign merchants, and passed through a secret door, out into the open country.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	moments	moment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	_
7	re-entered	re-enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	disguised	disguise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
18	through	through	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	out	out	ADV	RB	_	17	parataxis	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **re-enter** | past | Caliph | the hall |  |  |  | late *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **disguise** | participle | Caliph *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as foreign merchants | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pass** | participle | Caliph *not said here* |  |  | a secret door |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through door=Location |

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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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