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title: At this news I became almost beside myself with joy and greed, and I… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: At this news I became almost beside myself with joy and greed, and I flung my arms round the neck of the dervish, exclaiming: "Good dervish, I see plainly that the riches of this world are nothing to you, therefore of what use is the knowledge of this treasure to you? Who acts: I, riches, use. A sen
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 37

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At this news I became almost beside myself with joy and greed, and I flung my arms round the neck of the dervish, exclaiming: "Good dervish, I see plainly that the riches of this world are nothing to you, therefore of what use is the knowledge of this treasure to you?

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**Who acts:** I, riches, use · **What happens:** become, fling, exclaim, see, be · **To what, where:** news, arms, Good dervish, nothing, you, knowledge · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, riches, use), 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:pg128:33:37
# text = At this news I became almost beside myself with joy and greed, and I flung my arms round the neck of the dervish, exclaiming: "Good dervish, I see plainly that the riches of this world are nothing to you, therefore of what use is the knowledge of this treasure to you?
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	greed	greed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	round	round	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	dervish	dervish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	exclaiming	exclaim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	dervish	dervish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
34	plainly	plainly	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nsubj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	40	det	_	_
40	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
41	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
42	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	33	advcl	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	parataxis	_	_
49	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
50	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	52	cop	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	acl:relcl	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	55	det	_	_
55	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	_
56	to	to	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	55	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | I |  |  | this news |  | beside myself; with joy and greed | tree rules |
| 2 | **fling** | past | I | my arms |  |  |  | round the neck of the dervish | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme |
| 3 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | gerund | I *not said here* | Good dervish |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dervish=Topic |
| 4 | **see** *in a quote* | present | I |  |  |  |  | plainly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the riches of this world | nothing | you |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | use | the knowledge |  |  |  | of this treasure to you | 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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