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title: "You could not bring me better news," replied Camaralzaman, "and in… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "You could not bring me better news," replied Camaralzaman, "and in return I have something pleasant to tell you. Who acts: You, Camaralzaman, something. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 63

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"You could not bring me better news," replied Camaralzaman, "and in return I have something pleasant to tell you.

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**Who acts:** You, Camaralzaman, something · **What happens:** not bring, reply, have, tell · **To what, where:** better news, Camaralzaman, something, return, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Camaralzaman, something), 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:pg128:26:63
# text = "You could not bring me better news," replied Camaralzaman, "and in return I have something pleasant to tell you.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
11	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Camaralzaman	Camaralzaman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
20	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	19	obj	_	_
21	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **bring** *in a quote* | could | You | better news | Camaralzaman |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination news=Theme |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Camaralzaman |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Camaralzaman | something |  | return |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | something *not said here* |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |

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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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