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title: Now the old man only made a pretence of renouncing wine; he frequent… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the old man only made a pretence of renouncing wine; he frequented wine-shops like other people, and had taken none of the precautions Noureddin had proposed. Who acts: old man, pretence, man, Noureddin. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29, with its
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 85

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Now the old man only made a pretence of renouncing wine; he frequented wine-shops like other people, and had taken none of the precautions Noureddin had proposed.

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**Who acts:** old man, pretence, man, Noureddin · **What happens:** make, renounce, frequent, take, propose · **To what, where:** pretence, wine, wine shops, none, precautions

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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 (old man, pretence, man, Noureddin), 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:pg128:29:85
# text = Now the old man only made a pretence of renouncing wine; he frequented wine-shops like other people, and had taken none of the precautions Noureddin had proposed.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	pretence	pretence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	renouncing	renounce	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
11	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	frequented	frequent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
25	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	24	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	precautions	precaution	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
29	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	proposed	propose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the old man | a pretence |  |  | now |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pretence=Product |
| 2 | **renounce** | gerund | a pretence *not said here* | wine |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Source |
| 3 | **frequent** | past | man | wine shops |  |  |  | like other people | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | past · perfect | man *not said here* | none |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Theme |
| 5 | **propose** | past · perfect | Noureddin | the precautions *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent precaution=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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