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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 32

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In order to set off these accomplishments, the intendant resolved that his foster children should not be pent up any longer in the narrow borders of the palace gardens, where he had always lived, so he bought a splendid country house a few miles from the capital, surrounded by an immense park.

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**Who acts:** intendant, foster children, science · **What happens:** set off, resolve, not be, live, buy, surround · **To what, where:** accomplishments, narrow borders, splendid country house, capital

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (intendant, foster children, science), 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:pg128:41:32
# text = In order to set off these accomplishments, the intendant resolved that his foster children should not be pent up any longer in the narrow borders of the palace gardens, where he had always lived, so he bought a splendid country house a few miles from the capital, surrounded by an immense park.
1	In	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	4	mark	_	_
2	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	fixed	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	set	set	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	accomplishments	accomplishment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	intendant	intendant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	foster	foster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
16	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
19	pent	pent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	any	any	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	borders	border	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	36	advmod	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	36	advmod	_	_
36	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	so	so	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	bought	buy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
42	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
43	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
48	from	from	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
52	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	conj	_	_
53	by	by	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	immense	immense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set off** | to-infinitive |  | this accomplishments |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition accomplishment=Patient |
| 2 | **resolve** | past | the intendant | this accomplishments *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is** | should | science's foster children |  |  | the narrow borders of the palace gardens |  | long, pent *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **live** | past · perfect | science |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **buy** | past | science | a splendid country house |  | the capital |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent house=Beneficiary mile=Theme |
| 6 | **surround** | participle | science *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

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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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