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title: Noureddin took out two gold pieces, and giving them to Scheih Ibrahi… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Noureddin took out two gold pieces, and giving them to Scheih Ibrahim said, Who acts: Noureddin, giving. 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 61

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Noureddin took out two gold pieces, and giving them to Scheih Ibrahim said,

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**Who acts:** Noureddin, giving · **What happens:** take out, give, say · **To what, where:** two gold pieces, pieces · **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, giving), 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:pg128:29:61
# text = Noureddin took out two gold pieces, and giving them to Scheih Ibrahim said,
1	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	csubj	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Scheih	Scheih	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	Ibrahim	Ibrahim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take out** | past | Noureddin | two gold pieces |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | gerund |  |  | pieces *= piece* |  |  | to Scheih | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to scheih=Recipient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | giving |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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