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title: Noureddin made all haste on his journey to Balsora, and on his arriv… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Noureddin made all haste on his journey to Balsora, and on his arrival there went straight to the palace of the king, of whom he demanded an audience. Who acts: Noureddin. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 53

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Noureddin made all haste on his journey to Balsora, and on his arrival there went straight to the palace of the king, of whom he demanded an audience.

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**Who acts:** Noureddin · **What happens:** make, go, demand, journey, arrive · **To what, where:** haste, journey, arrival, audience

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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), 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:pg128:30:53
# text = Noureddin made all haste on his journey to Balsora, and on his arrival there went straight to the palace of the king, of whom he demanded an audience.
1	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Balsora	Balsora	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	arrival	arrival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
15	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
16	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	obl	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	demanded	demand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	audience	audience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Noureddin | all haste |  | Noureddin's journey to Balsora |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haste=Product |
| 2 | **go** | past | Noureddin *not said here* |  |  | Noureddin's arrival; there |  | to the palace of the king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial\_Location of whom=Destination |
| 3 | **demand** *speech: request* | past | Noureddin | a audience |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme audience=Precondition |
| 4 | **journey** |  | Noureddin |  |  |  |  | to Balsora | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
| 5 | **arrive** |  | Noureddin |  |  |  |  |  | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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