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title: Noureddin and the Persian said that when the fishes were properly co… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Noureddin and the Persian said that when the fishes were properly cooked and dressed they would gladly eat of them. Who acts: Noureddin, fish. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 16

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Noureddin and the Persian said that when the fishes were properly cooked and dressed they would gladly eat of them.

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**Who acts:** Noureddin, fish · **What happens:** say, cook, dress, eat · **To what, where:** fishes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Noureddin, fish), 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:pg128:30:16
# text = Noureddin and the Persian said that when the fishes were properly cooked and dressed they would gladly eat of them.
1	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Persian	Persian	PROPN	NNP	_	1	conj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	cooked	cook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	ccomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	gladly	gladly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Noureddin and the Persian |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **cook** | past · passive |  | the fishes |  |  |  | properly *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **dress** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **eat** | would | fish |  |  |  |  | of friends *= friend*; gladly *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of they=Source |

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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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