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title: As soon as Noureddin, son of the Vizir Khacan, bearer of this letter… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as Noureddin, son of the Vizir Khacan, bearer of this letter, has given it to thee, and thou hast read it, take off thy royal mantle, put it on his shoulders, and seat him in thy place without fail. Who acts: thou. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, pa
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 34

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As soon as Noureddin, son of the Vizir Khacan, bearer of this letter, has given it to thee, and thou hast read it, take off thy royal mantle, put it on his shoulders, and seat him in thy place without fail.

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** give, have, read, take off, put · **To what, where:** bearer, thee, royal mantle, mantle, shoulders

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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 (thou), 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:pg128:30:34
# text = As soon as Noureddin, son of the Vizir Khacan, bearer of this letter, has given it to thee, and thou hast read it, take off thy royal mantle, put it on his shoulders, and seat him in thy place without fail.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Vizir	Vizir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Khacan	Khacan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	bearer	bearer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
17	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	TO	_	21	case	_	_
21	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	nsubj	_	_
25	hast	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
26	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	ccomp	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
30	off	off	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
43	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
47	without	without	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	fail	fail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · perfect |  | bearer | thee |  |  | as Noureddin; seat in thy place without fail *obl*; soon *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to thou=Recipient |
| 2 | **have** | present | thou |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **read** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | bearer |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 4 | **take off** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | thy royal mantle |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mantle=Theme |
| 5 | **put** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | mantle |  | Noureddin's shoulders |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on shoulder=Destination |

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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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