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title: Noureddin re-entering at that moment, they plainly saw, in spite of… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Noureddin re-entering at that moment, they plainly saw, in spite of his efforts to dissemble, that what they had heard was the truth. Who acts: Noureddin, truth, friends. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 103

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Noureddin re-entering at that moment, they plainly saw, in spite of his efforts to dissemble, that what they had heard was the truth.

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**Who acts:** Noureddin, truth, friends · **What happens:** re-enter, see, dissemble, be, hear, spite · **To what, where:** spite, efforts

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Noureddin, truth, friends), 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:pg128:28:103
# text = Noureddin re-entering at that moment, they plainly saw, in spite of his efforts to dissemble, that what they had heard was the truth.
1	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	re-entering	re-enter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	plainly	plainly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	efforts	effort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	dissemble	dissemble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	parataxis	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **re-enter** | gerund | Noureddin *not said here* |  |  |  | moment |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | past | Noureddin | spite of lord's efforts |  |  |  | plainly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spite=Stimulus |
| 3 | **dissemble** | to-infinitive | Noureddin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the truth |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **hear** | past · perfect | friends *= friend* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **spite** |  |  | lord's efforts |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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