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title: As for the Golden Water it was poured into a great marble basin spec… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: As for the Golden Water it was poured into a great marble basin specially prepared for it, and it swelled and bubbled and then shot up into the air in a fountain twenty feet high. Who acts: water. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43, with its dependency
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 25

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As for the Golden Water it was poured into a great marble basin specially prepared for it, and it swelled and bubbled and then shot up into the air in a fountain twenty feet high.

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**Who acts:** water · **What happens:** pour, prepare, swell, bubble, shot up · **To what, where:** water, great marble basin, air

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water), 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:pg128:43:25
# text = As for the Golden Water it was poured into a great marble basin specially prepared for it, and it swelled and bubbled and then shot up into the air in a fountain twenty feet high.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
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	8	obl	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	poured	pour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	basin	basin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	specially	specially	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	swelled	swell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	bubbled	bubble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
26	shot	shot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
34	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
35	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl:unmarked	_	_
36	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pour** | past · passive |  | water |  | a great marble basin |  | as the Golden Water | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme into basin=Destination |
| 2 | **prepare** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | for water; specially *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for it=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **swell** | past | water |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **bubble** | past | water *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 5 | **shot up** | infinitive | water *not said here* |  |  | the air | then | in a fountain | 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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