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title: Noureddin, much mortified, recognised too late that he had confided… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Noureddin, much mortified, recognised too late that he had confided in false friends, who abandoned him in his hour of need. Who acts: thing, false 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 113

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Noureddin, much mortified, recognised too late that he had confided in false friends, who abandoned him in his hour of need.

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**Who acts:** thing, false friends · **What happens:** mortify, recognise, confide, abandon · **To what, where:** Noureddin, thing

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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 (thing, false 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:pg128:28:113
# text = Noureddin, much mortified, recognised too late that he had confided in false friends, who abandoned him in his hour of need.
1	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	much	much	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	mortified	mortify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	confided	confide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	abandoned	abandon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mortify** | participle · passive |  | Noureddin |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **recognise** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **confide** *speech: other* | past · perfect | thing |  |  |  |  | in false friends | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **abandon** | past | false friends | thing |  |  | hour |  | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme he=Source |

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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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