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title: The fish of four colours which are in it are the different races who… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The fish of four colours which are in it are the different races who lived in the town; the four hills are the four islands which give the name to my kingdom. Who acts: four colours, different races, four hills, four islands. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening,
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 96

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The fish of four colours which are in it are the different races who lived in the town; the four hills are the four islands which give the name to my kingdom.

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**Who acts:** four colours, different races, four hills, four islands · **What happens:** be, live, give · **To what, where:** different races, town, four islands, name, kingdom

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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 (four colours, different races, four hills, four islands), 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:pg128:5:96
# text = The fish of four colours which are in it are the different races who lived in the town; the four hills are the four islands which give the name to my kingdom.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	races	race	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	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 | four colours and the different races |  |  | the different races |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | past | the different races |  |  | the town |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the four hills | the four islands |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **give** | present | the four islands | the name | my kingdom |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Theme to kingdom=Recipient |

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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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