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title: He entered large halls where the carpets were of silk, the lounges a… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: He entered large halls where the carpets were of silk, the lounges and sofas covered with tapestry from Mecca, and the hangings of the most beautiful Indian stuffs of gold and silver. Who acts: Sultan, carpets. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5, with i
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 69

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He entered large halls where the carpets were of silk, the lounges and sofas covered with tapestry from Mecca, and the hangings of the most beautiful Indian stuffs of gold and silver.

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**Who acts:** Sultan, carpets · **What happens:** enter, be, cover · **To what, where:** large halls, lounges, Mecca

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, carpets), 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:pg128:5:69
# text = He entered large halls where the carpets were of silk, the lounges and sofas covered with tapestry from Mecca, and the hangings of the most beautiful Indian stuffs of gold and silver.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	halls	hall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	carpets	carpet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	lounges	lounge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	sofas	sofa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	tapestry	tapestry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Mecca	Mecca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hangings	hanging	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	28	advmod	_	_
28	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	stuffs	stuff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | Sultan | large halls |  |  |  | the hangings of the beautiful Indian stuffs of gold and silver *obl* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | past | the carpets |  |  |  |  | of silk and the lounges and sofas | tree rules |
| 3 | **cover** | participle |  | the lounges and sofas *not said here* |  | Mecca |  | with tapestry | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with tapestry=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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