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title: At one end of the court was a platform, and on the platform stood an… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: At one end of the court was a platform, and on the platform stood an amber throne supported by four ebony columns, garnished with pearls and diamonds. Who acts: court. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 20

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At one end of the court was a platform, and on the platform stood an amber throne supported by four ebony columns, garnished with pearls and diamonds.

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**Who acts:** court · **What happens:** be, stand, support, garnish · **To what, where:** amber throne, one end, four ebony columns

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (court), 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:pg128:6:20
# text = At one end of the court was a platform, and on the platform stood an amber throne supported by four ebony columns, garnished with pearls and diamonds.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	platform	platform	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	platform	platform	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
15	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	amber	amber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	supported	support	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
22	ebony	ebony	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	columns	column	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	garnished	garnish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the court |  |  |  |  | of a platform | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | past |  | a amber throne |  |  | at one end | on the platform | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent throne=Theme at end=Destination |
| 3 | **support** | participle |  | a amber throne *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **garnish** | participle |  | four ebony columns *not said here* |  |  |  | with pearls and diamonds | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with pearl=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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