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title: Not only did Noureddin's friends constantly partake of his hospitali… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Not only did Noureddin's friends constantly partake of his hospitality, but in every way they took advantage of his generosity; everything of his that they admired, whether land, houses, baths, or any other source of his revenue, he immediately bestowed on them. Who acts: friends, vizir. A sentence 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 90

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Not only did Noureddin's friends constantly partake of his hospitality, but in every way they took advantage of his generosity; everything of his that they admired, whether land, houses, baths, or any other source of his revenue, he immediately bestowed on them.

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**Who acts:** friends, vizir · **What happens:** not do, partake, take, admire, bestow · **To what, where:** vizir, advantage, way, land houses

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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 (friends, 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:pg128:28:90
# text = Not only did Noureddin's friends constantly partake of his hospitality, but in every way they took advantage of his generosity; everything of his that they admired, whether land, houses, baths, or any other source of his revenue, he immediately bestowed on them.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	constantly	constantly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	partake	partake	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	hospitality	hospitality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	advantage	advantage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	generosity	generosity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	26	nsubj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	admired	admire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
34	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	baths	bath	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	41	det	_	_
40	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	revenue	revenue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
47	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	bestowed	bestow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	conj	_	_
49	on	on	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** | past |  | vizir |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent his=Eventuality |
| 2 | **partake** | present | Noureddin's friends |  |  |  |  | of vizir's hospitality; constantly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | past | friends *= friend* | advantage of vizir's generosity |  | every way |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent advantage=Value in way=Location |
| 4 | **admire** | past | friends *= friend* | land houses and baths |  |  |  | any other source of vizir's revenue *obl* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **bestow** | participle | vizir |  |  |  |  | on friends *= friend*; immediately *property* | tree rules |

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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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