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title: Noureddin and the beautiful Persian, finding the wine excellent, dra… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Noureddin and the beautiful Persian, finding the wine excellent, drank of it freely, and while drinking they sang. Who acts: Noureddin, invitations. 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 81

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Noureddin and the beautiful Persian, finding the wine excellent, drank of it freely, and while drinking they sang.

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**Who acts:** Noureddin, invitations · **What happens:** find, drink, sing · **To what, where:** wine

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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, invitations), 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:pg128:29:81
# text = Noureddin and the beautiful Persian, finding the wine excellent, drank of it freely, and while drinking they sang.
1	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Persian	persian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	finding	find	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	excellent	excellent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
12	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	freely	freely	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | gerund | Noureddin *not said here* | the wine |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Topic |
| 2 | **drink** | past | Noureddin |  |  |  |  | of wine; freely *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of it=Source |
| 3 | **drink** | gerund | invitations *= invitation* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | invitations *= invitation* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «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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