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title: "Wretched man!" he cried, "you ought to die of shame at behaving so… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Wretched man!" he cried, "you ought to die of shame at behaving so to a young wife who has done nothing to you. Who acts: Wretched man, you, young wife. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 79

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"Wretched man!" he cried, "you ought to die of shame at behaving so to a young wife who has done nothing to you.

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**Who acts:** Wretched man, you, young wife · **What happens:** cry, die, behave, do · **To what, where:** nothing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wretched man, you, young wife), 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:pg128:20:79
# text = "Wretched man!" he cried, "you ought to die of shame at behaving so to a young wife who has done nothing to you.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Wretched	wretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	behaving	behave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	25	obj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Wretched man |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **die** *in a quote* | ought | you |  |  |  |  | of shame | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of shame=Causer |
| 3 | **behave** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a young wife | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | present · perfect | a young wife | nothing |  |  |  | to you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |

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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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