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title: "Good dervish," answered the princess, "I have heard such glowing de… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Good dervish," answered the princess, "I have heard such glowing descriptions of these three things, that I cannot rest till I possess them." Who acts: Good dervish. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 67

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"Good dervish," answered the princess, "I have heard such glowing descriptions of these three things, that I cannot rest till I possess them."

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**Who acts:** Good dervish · **What happens:** answer, hear, glow, not rest, possess, describe · **To what, where:** princess, such glowing descriptions, descriptions, three things · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Good dervish), 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:pg128:42:67
# text = "Good dervish," answered the princess, "I have heard such glowing descriptions of these three things, that I cannot rest till I possess them."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	dervish	dervish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
14	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	descriptions	description	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
19	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
27	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	possess	possess	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Good dervish |  | the princess |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Good dervish *= dervish* | such glowing descriptions of this three things |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer description=Stimulus |
| 3 | **glow** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **rest** *in a quote* | can | Good dervish *= dervish* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **possess** *in a quote* | present | Good dervish *= dervish* | descriptions *= description* |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme |
| 6 | **describe** *in a quote* |  |  | this three things |  |  |  |  | nom description «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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