The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 37

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

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.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 news	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 news	det
3	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 became	obl
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 became	nsubj
5	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	almost	almost	ADV	_	8 myself	advmod
7	beside	beside	ADP	_	8 myself	case
8	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 became	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 joy	case
10	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 became	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 greed	cc
12	greed	greed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 joy	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 flung	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 flung	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 flung	nsubj
16	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 became	conj
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 arms	nmod:poss
18	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 flung	obj
19	round	round	ADP	_	21 neck	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 neck	det
21	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 flung	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 dervish	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 dervish	det
24	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 neck	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 exclaiming	punct
26	exclaiming	exclaim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 flung	advcl
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 dervish	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 dervish	punct
29	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 dervish	amod
30	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 exclaiming	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 see	punct
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 see	nsubj
33	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 became	conj
34	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	33 see	advmod
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 nothing	mark
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 riches	det
37	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 nothing	nsubj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 world	case
39	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 world	det
40	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 riches	nmod
41	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 nothing	cop
42	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	33 see	advcl
43	to	to	ADP	_	44 you	case
44	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 nothing	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 what	punct
46	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	48 what	advmod
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 what	case
48	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 became	parataxis
49	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 knowledge	nsubj
50	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 knowledge	cop
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 knowledge	det
52	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 what	acl:relcl
53	of	of	ADP	_	55 treasure	case
54	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	55 treasure	det
55	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 knowledge	nmod
56	to	to	ADP	_	57 you	case
57	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	55 treasure	nmod
58	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	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

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.

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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