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title: When Noureddin had left the room, Scheih Ibrahim, who had hitherto k… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: When Noureddin had left the room, Scheih Ibrahim, who had hitherto kept silence, said: "Kerim, for two miserable fish thou hast received a purse and a slave. Who acts: Noureddin, Scheih, thou. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30, with its dependency tre
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 38

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When Noureddin had left the room, Scheih Ibrahim, who had hitherto kept silence, said: "Kerim, for two miserable fish thou hast received a purse and a slave.

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**Who acts:** Noureddin, Scheih, thou · **What happens:** leave, keep, say, receive · **To what, where:** room, Scheih, purse · **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, Scheih, 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:pg128:30:38
# text = When Noureddin had left the room, Scheih Ibrahim, who had hitherto kept silence, said: "Kerim, for two miserable fish thou hast received a purse and a slave.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	ccomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	Scheih	Scheih	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
9	Ibrahim	Ibrahim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	hitherto	hitherto	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
15	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Kerim	Kerim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
24	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
26	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	nsubj	_	_
27	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	purse	purse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	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 | **leave** | past · perfect | Noureddin | the room |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | past · perfect · passive |  | Scheih |  |  |  | hitherto *property* | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme silence=Attribute |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Scheih |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **receive** *in a quote* | present · perfect | thou | a purse and a slave |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=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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