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title: I had got what I wanted, but I had found the dervish so easy to deal… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I had got what I wanted, but I had found the dervish so easy to deal with, that I rather regretted I had not asked for ten more. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 77

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I had got what I wanted, but I had found the dervish so easy to deal with, that I rather regretted I had not asked for ten more.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** get, want, find, deal, regret, not ask · **To what, where:** dervish · **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), 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:pg128:33:77
# text = I had got what I wanted, but I had found the dervish so easy to deal with, that I rather regretted I had not asked for ten more.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	dervish	dervish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	deal	deal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	regretted	regret	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	parataxis	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past · perfect | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 2 | **want** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **find** | past · perfect | I | the dervish |  |  |  | easy *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dervish=Topic |
| 4 | **deal** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **regret** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **not** **ask** *speech: ask* | past · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | for ten more | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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