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title: The Persian was equally captivated by Noureddin, and said to herself… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The Persian was equally captivated by Noureddin, and said to herself: "The vizir does me too great honour in buying me for the king. Who acts: Noureddin, vizir, great honour. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 20

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The Persian was equally captivated by Noureddin, and said to herself: "The vizir does me too great honour in buying me for the king.

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**Who acts:** Noureddin, vizir, great honour · **What happens:** captivate, say, do, buy · **To what, where:** Persian, Noureddin, great honour, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, vizir, great honour), 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:pg128:28:20
# text = The Persian was equally captivated by Noureddin, and said to herself: "The vizir does me too great honour in buying me for the king.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Persian	Persian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	equally	equally	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	captivated	captivate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	vizir	vizir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	_
19	too	too	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	buying	buy	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **captivate** | past · passive | Noureddin | the Persian |  |  |  | equally *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | Noureddin |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | present | the vizir | great honour | me |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **buy** *in a quote* | gerund | great honour *not said here* |  | me |  |  | for the king | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent i=Theme for king=Beneficiary |

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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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