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title: Noureddin, on being awoke, told the old man that they were strangers… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Noureddin, on being awoke, told the old man that they were strangers, and merely wished to pass the night there. " Who acts: Noureddin, persons. 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 58

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Noureddin, on being awoke, told the old man that they were strangers, and merely wished to pass the night there. "

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**Who acts:** Noureddin, persons · **What happens:** be, tell, wish, pass · **To what, where:** old man, strangers · **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, persons), 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:pg128:29:58
# text = Noureddin, on being awoke, told the old man that they were strangers, and merely wished to pass the night there. "
1	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	cop	_	_
5	awoke	awake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	wished	wish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund | Noureddin *not said here* |  |  |  |  | awake *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Noureddin |  | the old man |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient |
| 3 | **is a** | past | persons *= person* | strangers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **wish** | participle | Noureddin *not said here* |  |  |  |  | merely *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **pass** | to-infinitive | Noureddin *not said here* |  |  | there | night |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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