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title: "Certainly, but Noureddin has just been to tell me that his father h… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Certainly, but Noureddin has just been to tell me that his father has changed his mind and has bestowed me upon him. Who acts: king. 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 42

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"Certainly, but Noureddin has just been to tell me that his father has changed his mind and has bestowed me upon him.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** tell, change, bestow, mind · **To what, where:** husband, Noureddin · **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 (king), 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:pg128:28:42
# text = "Certainly, but Noureddin has just been to tell me that his father has changed his mind and has bestowed me upon him.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
5	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	aux:pass	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	bestowed	bestow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  | my husband *= husband* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 2 | **change** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | Noureddin |  |  |  | certainly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **bestow** *in a quote* | present · perfect |  | my husband *= husband* |  |  |  | upon king | tree rules |
| 4 | **mind** *in a quote* |  | king |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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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