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title: When the procession entered in this order the gates of the capital,… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: When the procession entered in this order the gates of the capital, the eyes of the people who crowded the streets were fixed on the two young men, strangers to every one. Who acts: procession, people. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43, with its depen
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 68

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When the procession entered in this order the gates of the capital, the eyes of the people who crowded the streets were fixed on the two young men, strangers to every one.

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**Who acts:** procession, people · **What happens:** enter, crowd, fix · **To what, where:** gates, order, streets, one

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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 (procession, people), 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:pg128:43:68
# text = When the procession entered in this order the gates of the capital, the eyes of the people who crowded the streets were fixed on the two young men, strangers to every one.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	procession	procession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	crowded	crowd	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	ccomp	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
28	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	det	_	_
34	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | the procession | the gates of the capital and the eyes of the people |  | this order |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gate=Destination |
| 2 | **crowd** | past | the people |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fix** | past · passive |  | the streets | every one |  |  | on the two young men and strangers | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to one=Co-Patient |

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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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