The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 106
It is the last time that I shall have the pleasure of hearing you."
Who acts: sun, that, pleasure · What happens: be, have, hear · To what, where: last time, pleasure, you
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, that, pleasure), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 time | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 have | nsubj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | aux |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 time | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pleasure | det |
| 11 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obj |
| 12 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 13 hearing | mark |
| 13 | hearing | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 pleasure | acl |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 hearing | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | sun | the last time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | shall | that | the pleasure | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hear | gerund | the pleasure not said here | you | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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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