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title: Throughout one entire year Noureddin did nothing but amuse himself,… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Throughout one entire year Noureddin did nothing but amuse himself, and dissipate the wealth his father had taken such pains to acquire. 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 eve
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 92

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Throughout one entire year Noureddin did nothing but amuse himself, and dissipate the wealth his father had taken such pains to acquire.

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**Who acts:** Noureddin, father · **What happens:** do, amuse, dissipate, take, acquire · **To what, where:** nothing, vizir, wealth, such pains

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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:pg128:28:92
# text = Throughout one entire year Noureddin did nothing but amuse himself, and dissipate the wealth his father had taken such pains to acquire.
1	Throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	obj	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	amuse	amuse	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	dissipate	dissipate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	parataxis	_	_
20	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	pains	pain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	acquire	acquire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Noureddin | nothing |  |  | year |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |
| 2 | **amuse** | present | Noureddin *not said here* | vizir |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer |
| 3 | **dissipate** | infinitive | Noureddin *not said here* | the wealth |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wealth=Patient |
| 4 | **take** | past · perfect | vizir's father | such pains |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Theme |
| 5 | **acquire** | to-infinitive | vizir's father *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «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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