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title: And second, the Singing Tree, where every leaf is a song that is nev… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: And second, the Singing Tree, where every leaf is a song that is never silent. Who acts: leaf, song. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 53

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And second, the Singing Tree, where every leaf is a song that is never silent.

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**Who acts:** leaf, song · **What happens:** be, not be · **To what, where:** song

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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 (leaf, song), 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:pg128:41:53
# text = And second, the Singing Tree, where every leaf is a song that is never silent.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	second	second	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Singing	Singing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | every leaf | a song |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | a song |  |  |  |  | silent *property* | 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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