--- title: Noureddin letting her go, seized Saouy's horse by the bridle, and, e… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: Noureddin letting her go, seized Saouy's horse by the bridle, and, encouraged by the applause of the bystanders, dragged him to the ground, beat him severely, and left him in the gutter streaming with blood. Who acts: Noureddin, gutter. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lan --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/29/23/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/29/) / 23 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 23 Noureddin letting her go, seized Saouy's horse by the bridle, and, encouraged by the applause of the bystanders, dragged him to the ground, beat him severely, and left him in the gutter streaming with blood. **Who acts:** Noureddin, gutter · **What happens:** let, go, seize, encourage, drag, beat · **To what, where:** horse, Noureddin, ground, gutter 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 (Noureddin, gutter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg128:29:23 # text = Noureddin letting her go, seized Saouy's horse by the bridle, and, encouraged by the applause of the bystanders, dragged him to the ground, beat him severely, and left him in the gutter streaming with blood. 1 Noureddin Noureddin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 2 letting let VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 acl _ _ 3 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 6 seized seize VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 Saouy Saouy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 bridle bridle NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 encouraged encourage VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 17 by by ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 applause applause NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 bystanders bystander NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 dragged drag VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 beat beat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ _ 31 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 severely severely ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 36 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 gutter gutter NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 40 streaming stream VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 39 acl _ _ 41 with with ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | gerund | Noureddin *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **go** | infinitive | Noureddin *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **seize** | past | Noureddin | Saouy's horse | | | | by the bridle | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | | 4 | **encourage** | participle | Noureddin *not said here* | | | | | by the applause of the bystanders | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **drag** | past | Noureddin *not said here* | Noureddin | | the ground | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to ground=Destination | | 6 | **beat** | infinitive | Noureddin *not said here* | Noureddin | | | | severely *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme | | 7 | **leave** | past | Noureddin *not said here* | Noureddin | | the gutter | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in gutter=Location | | 8 | **stream** | gerund | the gutter *not said here* | | | | | with blood | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with blood=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/29/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/29/24/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/29/)