The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 95
We had only so much time as to come hither to implore those favours which you have been generously pleased to grant us.
Who acts: We, favours · What happens: have, come, implore, be, grant · To what, where: favours, us
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, favours), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 come | mark |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 come | mark |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | advcl |
| 10 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 9 come | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 implore | mark |
| 12 | implore | implore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 come | xcomp |
| 13 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 favours | det |
| 14 | favours | favour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 implore | obj |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 pleased | nsubj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 pleased | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 pleased | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 pleased | cop |
| 19 | generously | generously | ADV | _ | 20 pleased | advmod |
| 20 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 favours | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 grant | mark |
| 22 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 pleased | advcl |
| 23 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 grant | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | We | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come | to-infinitive | We not said here | hither property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | implore | to-infinitive | We not said here | that favours | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is | present · perfect | that favours | generously, pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | grant | to-infinitive | that favours not said here | us | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
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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