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title: The verses imbedded in the _Arabian Nights_ give them something of t… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The verses imbedded in the _Arabian Nights_ give them something of the character of a _cante-fable_, and the same may be said of the Indian and Persian story-books, though the verse is usually of a sententious and moral kind, as in the _gâthas_ of the Buddhist Jatakas. Who acts: verses, verse. A sen
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# English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 40

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The verses imbedded in the \_Arabian Nights\_ give them something of the character of a \_cante-fable\_, and the same may be said of the Indian and Persian story-books, though the verse is usually of a sententious and moral kind, as in the \_gâthas\_ of the Buddhist Jatakas.

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**Who acts:** verses, verse · **What happens:** imbed, give, say, be · **To what, where:** verses, something, \_, same · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Childe Rowland.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (verses, verse), 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:pg7439:71:40
# text = The verses imbedded in the _Arabian Nights_ give them something of the character of a _cante-fable_, and the same may be said of the Indian and Persian story-books, though the verse is usually of a sententious and moral kind, as in the _gâthas_ of the Buddhist Jatakas.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	verses	verse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
3	imbedded	imbed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	cante	cante	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	fable	fable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
32	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	Persian	persian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	_
35	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
39	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	verse	verse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
42	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
43	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
46	sententious	sententious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	moral	moral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	conj	_	_
49	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
51	as	as	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
52	in	in	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	55	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	gâthas	gâtha	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	55	punct	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
59	Buddhist	buddhist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	Jatakas	jataka	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **imbed** | participle |  | the verses *not said here* |  |  | night |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | present | the verses | something | \_ |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient something=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | may · passive |  | the same |  |  |  | of the Indian story books | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **is** | present | the verse |  |  |  |  | of a sententious kind; usually *property* | tree rules |

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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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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