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title: "Charming Persian," answered Noureddin, "how could I be guilty of su… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Charming Persian," answered Noureddin, "how could I be guilty of such baseness? Who acts: Charming. 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 7

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"Charming Persian," answered Noureddin, "how could I be guilty of such baseness?

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**Who acts:** Charming · **What happens:** answer, be · **To what, where:** Noureddin · **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 (Charming), 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:pg128:29:7
# text = "Charming Persian," answered Noureddin, "how could I be guilty of such baseness?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Charming	Charming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	Persian	Persian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	guilty	guilty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	baseness	baseness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: ask* | past | Charming |  | Noureddin |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent noureddin=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | could | Charming |  |  |  |  | of such baseness; guilty *property* | tree rules |

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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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