The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 58
I have thought of you often, and rejoice to see you once more."
Who acts: I · What happens: think, rejoice, see · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. 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.
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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | aux |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | obl |
| 6 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 thought | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 rejoice | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 rejoice | cc |
| 9 | rejoice | rejoice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 see | mark |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 rejoice | xcomp |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 see | obj |
| 13 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 14 more | advmod |
| 14 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 see | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 rejoice | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 rejoice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present · perfect | I | of you; often property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rejoice | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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