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title: In the middle of the court stood a marble basin filled with water fr… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: In the middle of the court stood a marble basin filled with water from the mouth of a golden lion. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 21

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In the middle of the court stood a marble basin filled with water from the mouth of a golden lion.

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**What happens:** stand, fill · **To what, where:** marble basin, middle, mouth

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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: 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:pg128:6:21
# text = In the middle of the court stood a marble basin filled with water from the mouth of a golden lion.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	marble	marble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	basin	basin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | a marble basin |  | the middle of the court |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent basin=Theme in middle=Destination |
| 2 | **fill** | participle |  | a marble basin *not said here* |  | the mouth of a golden lion |  | with water | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with water=Instrument |

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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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