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title: Noureddin showed every mark of the deepest grief at his father's dea… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Noureddin showed every mark of the deepest grief at his father's death, and for long refused to see any one. 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 83

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Noureddin showed every mark of the deepest grief at his father's death, and for long refused to see any one.

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**Who acts:** Noureddin, father · **What happens:** show, refuse, not see, mark, die · **To what, where:** mark, death, one, deepest grief

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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:pg128:28:83
# text = Noureddin showed every mark of the deepest grief at his father's death, and for long refused to see any one.
1	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	deepest	deep	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	obl	_	_
18	refused	refuse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | past | Noureddin | every mark of the deepest grief |  | vizir's father's death |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mark=Recipient |
| 2 | **refuse** | participle | Noureddin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **see** | to-infinitive | Noureddin *not said here* | any one |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 4 | **mark** |  |  | the deepest grief |  |  |  |  | nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **die** |  | vizir's father |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: 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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