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title: Here," said Noureddin, "let us pass the night," and reclining on the… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Here," said Noureddin, "let us pass the night," and reclining on the sofas they soon fell asleep. Who acts: Noureddin, us, neighbours. 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 52

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Here," said Noureddin, "let us pass the night," and reclining on the sofas they soon fell asleep.

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**Who acts:** Noureddin, us, neighbours · **What happens:** say, let, pass, recline, fall · **To what, where:** us, sofas · **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 (Noureddin, us, neighbours), 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:pg128:29:52
# text = Here," said Noureddin, "let us pass the night," and reclining on the sofas they soon fell asleep.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
9	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	reclining	recline	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sofas	sofa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
22	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Noureddin |  |  | here |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pass** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **recline** *in a quote* | gerund | Noureddin *not said here* |  |  | the sofas |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sofa=Location |
| 5 | **fall** *in a quote* | past | neighbours *= neighbour* | the sofas *not said here* |  |  |  | asleep, soon *property* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient sofa=Result |

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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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