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title: I shall then deal in diamonds, pearls, and all sorts of rich stones. — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: I shall then deal in diamonds, pearls, and all sorts of rich stones. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Alnaschar., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Alnaschar., sentence 18

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I shall then deal in diamonds, pearls, and all sorts of rich stones.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** deal, sort · **To what, where:** sorts, diamonds, rich stones

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Alnaschar.. 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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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62868:16:18
# text = I shall then deal in diamonds, pearls, and all sorts of rich stones.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	deal	deal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deal** | shall | I | all sorts of rich stones |  | diamonds and pearls | then |  | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sort** |  |  | rich stones |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition 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:** «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (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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