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description: Hagi Hassan then sought Noureddin, and told him that his slave was going far below her value, and that if Saouy bought her he was capable of not paying the money. " Who acts: Hagi, slave, Saouy, Noureddin. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29, with its d
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 19

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Hagi Hassan then sought Noureddin, and told him that his slave was going far below her value, and that if Saouy bought her he was capable of not paying the money. "

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**Who acts:** Hagi, slave, Saouy, Noureddin · **What happens:** seek, tell, go, buy, be, not pay · **To what, where:** Noureddin, value, Hagi, money · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hagi, slave, Saouy, Noureddin), 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:pg128:29:19
# text = Hagi Hassan then sought Noureddin, and told him that his slave was going far below her value, and that if Saouy bought her he was capable of not paying the money. "
1	Hagi	Hagi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Hassan	Hassan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	ccomp	_	_
15	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
16	below	below	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
22	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	Saouy	Saouy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	bought	buy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	iobj	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	capable	capable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
29	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	paying	pay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | past | Hagi | Noureddin |  |  | then |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noureddin=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Hagi *not said here* |  | Noureddin |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** | past · progressive | Noureddin's slave |  |  | Hagi's value |  | far *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme below value=Location |
| 4 | **buy** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Saouy |  | Hagi |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | Noureddin |  |  |  |  | capable *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **pay** | gerund | Noureddin *not said here* | the money |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset |
| 7 | **value** |  | Hagi |  |  |  |  |  | nom value «cognition transitive»: 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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