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title: Noureddin, not hoping for so great indulgence, thanked his father, a… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Noureddin, not hoping for so great indulgence, thanked his father, and vowed to do as he desired. Who acts: Noureddin, father. 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 77

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Noureddin, not hoping for so great indulgence, thanked his father, and vowed to do as he desired.

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**Who acts:** Noureddin, father · **What happens:** not hope, thank, vow, do, desire · **To what, where:** father

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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, father), 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:pg128:28:77
# text = Noureddin, not hoping for so great indulgence, thanked his father, and vowed to do as he desired.
1	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	hoping	hope	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	indulgence	indulgence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	vowed	vow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	desired	desire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hope** | gerund | Noureddin *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for great indulgence | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for indulgence=Theme |
| 2 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | Noureddin |  | vizir's father |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme |
| 3 | **vow** | past | Noureddin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Noureddin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **desire** | past | father |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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