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title: At length Nouradin felt himself seized with a slow malady; he called… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: At length Nouradin felt himself seized with a slow malady; he called to him Almamoulin, his only son; and, dismissing his attendants, “My son,” says he, “behold here the weakness and fragility of man; look backward a few days, thy father was great and happy. Who acts: Nouradin, father. A sentence of
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 4

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At length Nouradin felt himself seized with a slow malady; he called to him Almamoulin, his only son; and, dismissing his attendants, “My son,” says he, “behold here the weakness and fragility of man; look backward a few days, thy father was great and happy.

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**Who acts:** Nouradin, father · **What happens:** feel, seize, call, dismiss, say, look · **To what, where:** Nouradin, length, India, attendants · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Almamoulin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nouradin, father), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62868:18:4
# text = At length Nouradin felt himself seized with a slow malady; he called to him Almamoulin, his only son; and, dismissing his attendants, “My son,” says he, “behold here the weakness and fragility of man; look backward a few days, thy father was great and happy.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	Nouradin	Nouradin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	seized	seize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	xcomp	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	malady	malady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	Almamoulin	Almamoulin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	dismissing	dismiss	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	attendants	attendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
33	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
36	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	38	discourse	_	_
38	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	conj	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	weakness	weakness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	fragility	fragility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
46	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	ccomp	_	_
47	backward	backward	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
52	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nsubj	_	_
54	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	cop	_	_
55	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	parataxis	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
57	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | Nouradin | Nouradin |  | length |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **seize** | participle | Nouradin *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a slow malady | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **call** | past | Nouradin |  | India |  |  | Almamoulin *xcomp* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 4 | **dismiss** | gerund | Nouradin *not said here* | Nouradin's attendants and My son |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attendant=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  | Nouradin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  | day | backward *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **is** *in a quote* | past | thy father |  |  |  |  | great *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **be** *in a quote* |  | thy father *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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:** «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (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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