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description: I would further beg, as Noureddin publicly affronted me, that the execution might be in front of the palace, and that it might be proclaimed throughout the city, so that no one may be ignorant of it." Who acts: I, Noureddin, execution, one. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 71

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I would further beg, as Noureddin publicly affronted me, that the execution might be in front of the palace, and that it might be proclaimed throughout the city, so that no one may be ignorant of it."

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**Who acts:** I, Noureddin, execution, one · **What happens:** beg, affront, be, proclaim · **To what, where:** me, front, execution

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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 (I, Noureddin, execution, one), 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:pg128:30:71
# text = I would further beg, as Noureddin publicly affronted me, that the execution might be in front of the palace, and that it might be proclaimed throughout the city, so that no one may be ignorant of it."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	further	further	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	beg	beg	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	publicly	publicly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	affronted	affront	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	execution	execution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	proclaimed	proclaim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
29	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
33	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	39	mark	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	fixed	_	_
35	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	36	det	_	_
36	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
37	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	cop	_	_
39	ignorant	ignorant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | would | I |  |  |  |  | further *property* | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **affront** | past | Noureddin | me |  |  |  | publicly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | might | the execution |  |  | front |  | of the palace | tree rules |
| 4 | **proclaim** | might · passive |  | execution |  |  | throughout the city |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | may | no one |  |  |  |  | of execution; ignorant *property* | tree rules |

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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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