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title: This advice Noureddin was not slow to follow, and soon he formed lit… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: This advice Noureddin was not slow to follow, and soon he formed little society of ten young men all about his own age, with whom he spent all his time in continual feasting and merry-making. Who acts: advice, vizir. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28,
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 85

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This advice Noureddin was not slow to follow, and soon he formed little society of ten young men all about his own age, with whom he spent all his time in continual feasting and merry-making.

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**Who acts:** advice, vizir · **What happens:** not be, follow, form, spend, make · **To what, where:** little society, continual feasting

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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 (advice, vizir), 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:pg128:28:85
# text = This advice Noureddin was not slow to follow, and soon he formed little society of ten young men all about his own age, with whom he spent all his time in continual feasting and merry-making.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	society	society	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
18	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
20	all	all	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
21	about	about	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	obl	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	32	det:predet	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	continual	continual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	feasting	feasting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | this advice |  |  |  |  | slow *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **follow** | to-infinitive | this advice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **form** | past | vizir | little society of ten young men |  |  | about vizir's own age | soon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location society=Theme |
| 4 | **spend** | past | vizir |  |  | continual feasting | time |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **make** | gerund | vizir *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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