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description: Noureddin and the Persian entering, were dazzled with the magnificence they beheld. Who acts: key. 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 67

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Noureddin and the Persian entering, were dazzled with the magnificence they beheld.

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**Who acts:** key · **What happens:** dazzle, behold · **To what, where:** Noureddin, magnificence

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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 (key), 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:pg128:29:67
# text = Noureddin and the Persian entering, were dazzled with the magnificence they beheld.
1	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Persian	persian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	entering	entering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	dazzled	dazzle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	magnificence	magnificence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	beheld	behold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dazzle** | past · passive |  | Noureddin and the Persian entering |  |  |  | with the magnificence | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **behold** | past | key | the magnificence *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer magnificence=Stimulus |

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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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