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title: Accordingly next morning early Noureddin went to seek his ten friend… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Accordingly next morning early Noureddin went to seek his ten friends, who all lived in the same street. Who acts: Noureddin, ten friends. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 108

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Accordingly next morning early Noureddin went to seek his ten friends, who all lived in the same street.

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**Who acts:** Noureddin, ten friends · **What happens:** go, seek, live · **To what, where:** ten friends, same street

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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, ten 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:pg128:28:108
# text = Accordingly next morning early Noureddin went to seek his ten friends, who all lived in the same street.
1	Accordingly	accordingly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
5	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	all	all	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Noureddin |  |  |  | morning | accordingly, early *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **seek** | to-infinitive | Noureddin *not said here* | One's ten friends |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme |
| 3 | **live** | past | One's ten friends |  |  | the same street |  | all *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in street=Location |

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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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