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title: About half a mile from this city he bought a nice little place, with… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: About half a mile from this city he bought a nice little place, with a large garden and a fair-sized court, in the centre of which stood an old well. Who acts: mile, centre. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 48

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About half a mile from this city he bought a nice little place, with a large garden and a fair-sized court, in the centre of which stood an old well.

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**Who acts:** mile, centre · **What happens:** buy, size, stand · **To what, where:** nice little place, centre, old well

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mile, centre), 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:pg128:9:48
# text = About half a mile from this city he bought a nice little place, with a large garden and a fair-sized court, in the centre of which stood an old well.
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	4	det:predet	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	bought	buy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	sized	size	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | past | half mile from this city | a nice little place |  | the centre |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 2 | **size** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stand** | past | the centre | a old well |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer well=Stimulus |

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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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