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title: Alnaschar almost died of joy on receiving it. — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Alnaschar almost died of joy on receiving it. Who acts: Alnaschar. 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 89

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Alnaschar almost died of joy on receiving it.

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**Who acts:** Alnaschar · **What happens:** die, receive · **To what, where:** joy

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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 (Alnaschar), 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:pg128:20:89
# text = Alnaschar almost died of joy on receiving it.
1	Alnaschar	Alnaschar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	receiving	receive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | Alnaschar |  |  |  |  | of joy; almost *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of joy=Causer |
| 2 | **receive** | gerund | Alnaschar *not said here* | joy |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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