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title: Then, taking the beautiful Persian, he returned home amidst the accl… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, taking the beautiful Persian, he returned home amidst the acclamations of the people, who detested Saouy so much that they would neither interfere in his behalf nor allow his slaves to protect him. Who acts: Noureddin, people. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, O
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 24

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Then, taking the beautiful Persian, he returned home amidst the acclamations of the people, who detested Saouy so much that they would neither interfere in his behalf nor allow his slaves to protect him.

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**Who acts:** Noureddin, people · **What happens:** take, return, detest, interfere, allow, protect · **To what, where:** beautiful Persian, Saouy, behalf, slaves, Noureddin, people

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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 (Noureddin, people), 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:pg128:29:24
# text = Then, taking the beautiful Persian, he returned home amidst the acclamations of the people, who detested Saouy so much that they would neither interfere in his behalf nor allow his slaves to protect him.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Persian	persian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	home	home	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	amidst	amidst	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	acclamations	acclamation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	detested	detest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	Saouy	Saouy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	much	much	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	interfere	interfere	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	behalf	behalf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	32	cc	_	_
32	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	advcl	_	_
37	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | gerund | Noureddin *not said here* | the beautiful Persian |  |  | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent persian=Theme |
| 2 | **return** | past | Noureddin |  |  |  |  | amidst the acclamations of the people; home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **detest** | past | the people | Saouy |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer saouy=Stimulus |
| 4 | **interfere** | would | people |  |  | Noureddin's behalf |  | neither *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **allow** | infinitive | people *not said here* | Noureddin's slaves |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **protect** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* |  | Noureddin |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
| 7 | **acclaim** |  |  | the people |  |  |  |  | nom acclamation «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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