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title: It was the Feast of the New Year, the oldest and most splendid of al… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: It was the Feast of the New Year, the oldest and most splendid of all the feasts in the Kingdom of Persia, and the day had been spent by the king in the city of Schiraz, taking part in the magnificent spectacles prepared by his subjects to do honour to the festival. Who acts: Horse, king. A sentence
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 47

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It was the Feast of the New Year, the oldest and most splendid of all the feasts in the Kingdom of Persia, and the day had been spent by the king in the city of Schiraz, taking part in the magnificent spectacles prepared by his subjects to do honour to the festival.

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**Who acts:** Horse, king · **What happens:** be, spend, take, prepare, do, honour · **To what, where:** Feast, city, part, magnificent spectacles

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Horse, king), 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:pg128:37:47
# text = It was the Feast of the New Year, the oldest and most splendid of all the feasts in the Kingdom of Persia, and the day had been spent by the king in the city of Schiraz, taking part in the magnificent spectacles prepared by his subjects to do honour to the festival.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	parataxis	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	14	advmod	_	_
14	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	feasts	feast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Persia	Persia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	spent	spend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Schiraz	Schiraz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
41	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	spectacles	spectacle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	_
46	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	acl	_	_
47	by	by	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	subjects	subject	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
51	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	advcl	_	_
52	honour	honour	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	51	ccomp	_	_
53	to	to	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Horse | the Feast |  |  | of the New Year |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **spend** | past · perfect · passive | the king |  |  | the city of Schiraz | day |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take** | gerund | the king *not said here* | part |  | the magnificent spectacles |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent part=Value in spectacle=Location |
| 4 | **prepare** | participle |  | the magnificent spectacles *not said here* |  |  |  | by Schiraz's subjects | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **do** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **honour** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to the festival | tree rules |

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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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