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title: Noureddin, far from contenting himself with three, lit all, and open… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Noureddin, far from contenting himself with three, lit all, and opened all the eighty windows. Who acts: Noureddin. 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 92

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Noureddin, far from contenting himself with three, lit all, and opened all the eighty windows.

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**Who acts:** Noureddin · **What happens:** content, light, open · **To what, where:** Noureddin, all, eighty windows

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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), 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:pg128:29:92
# text = Noureddin, far from contenting himself with three, lit all, and opened all the eighty windows.
1	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
4	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	contenting	content	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	lit	light	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	eighty	eighty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **content** | gerund | Noureddin *not said here* | Noureddin |  |  |  | with three; far *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer |
| 2 | **light** | past | Noureddin | all |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Product |
| 3 | **open** | past | Noureddin *not said here* | all eighty windows |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=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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