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title: Young men once made a noise at Monsieur Galland's windows in the dea… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Young men once made a noise at Monsieur Galland's windows in the dead of night, and asked him to tell them one of his marvellous tales. Who acts: Young men, Galland. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 36

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Young men once made a noise at Monsieur Galland's windows in the dead of night, and asked him to tell them one of his marvellous tales.

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**Who acts:** Young men, Galland · **What happens:** make, ask, tell · **To what, where:** noise, windows, Galland, one, Man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Young men, Galland), 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:pg128:1:36
# text = Young men once made a noise at Monsieur Galland's windows in the dead of night, and asked him to tell them one of his marvellous tales.
1	Young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	Monsieur	Monsieur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Galland	Galland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	iobj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Young men | a noise |  | Monsieur Galland's windows in the dead |  | once *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noise=Product |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Young men *not said here* |  | Galland |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Young men *not said here* | one of Galland's marvellous tales | Man |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient one=Topic |
| 4 | **tell** |  | Galland |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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