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title: Now they have passed into my hands, whence they will flow into the h… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Now they have passed into my hands, whence they will flow into the hands of others less greedy and ungrateful than you." Who acts: riches. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 32

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Now they have passed into my hands, whence they will flow into the hands of others less greedy and ungrateful than you."

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**Who acts:** riches · **What happens:** pass, flow · **To what, where:** riches, hands

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (riches), 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:pg128:34:32
# text = Now they have passed into my hands, whence they will flow into the hands of others less greedy and ungrateful than you."
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	flow	flow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
18	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
19	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	ungrateful	ungrateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	than	than	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | present · perfect · passive |  | riches *= rich* |  | my hands | now |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme into hand=Destination |
| 2 | **flow** | future | riches *= rich* |  |  | the hands |  | whence *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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