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title: Then, presenting him with forty gold pieces, he disappeared before N… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, presenting him with forty gold pieces, he disappeared before Noureddin had time to thank him. Who acts: Noureddin. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 41

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Then, presenting him with forty gold pieces, he disappeared before Noureddin had time to thank him.

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**Who acts:** Noureddin · **What happens:** present, disappear, have, thank · **To what, where:** Noureddin

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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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg128:2397`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg128:29:41
# text = Then, presenting him with forty gold pieces, he disappeared before Noureddin had time to thank him.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	presenting	present	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	thank	thank	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **present** | gerund | Noureddin *not said here* |  | Noureddin |  |  | with forty gold pieces | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with piece=Theme |
| 2 | **disappear** | past | Noureddin |  |  |  | then |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | Noureddin |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **thank** *speech: thank* | to-infinitive | Noureddin *not said here* |  | Noureddin |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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