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title: And lastly the Golden Water, of which it is only needful to pour a s… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: And lastly the Golden Water, of which it is only needful to pour a single drop into a basin for it to shoot up into a fountain, which will never be exhausted, nor will the basin ever overflow." Who acts: Water, basin. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 54

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And lastly the Golden Water, of which it is only needful to pour a single drop into a basin for it to shoot up into a fountain, which will never be exhausted, nor will the basin ever overflow."

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**Who acts:** Water, basin · **What happens:** be, pour, shoot up, not exhaust, overflow · **To what, where:** single drop, basin, fountain

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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 (Water, basin), 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:pg128:41:54
# text = And lastly the Golden Water, of which it is only needful to pour a single drop into a basin for it to shoot up into a fountain, which will never be exhausted, nor will the basin ever overflow."
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	lastly	lastly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obl	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	needful	needful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	pour	pour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	basin	basin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	shoot	shoot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
32	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	exhausted	exhaust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
36	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	41	cc	_	_
37	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	basin	basin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
40	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	41	advmod	_	_
41	overflow	overflow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Water |  |  |  |  | needful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pour** | to-infinitive | Water *not said here* | a single drop |  | a basin |  |  | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent drop=Theme into basin=Destination |
| 3 | **shoot up** | to-infinitive | Water |  |  | a fountain |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **exhaust** | future · passive |  | a fountain |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 5 | **overflow** | future | the basin |  |  |  | ever |  | 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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