The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 36
I am all impatience to learn the wonderful accident which has procured the pleasure of your arrival, and that is why I have come to you here, where no one can intrude upon us.
Who acts: I, that, one, your · What happens: be, learn, procure, come, intrude, please · To what, where: impatience, wonderful accident, you, arrival
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, that, one, your), 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 | 4 impatience | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 impatience | cop |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 impatience | det |
| 4 | impatience | impatience | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 learn | mark |
| 6 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 impatience | acl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 accident | det |
| 8 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 accident | amod |
| 9 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 learn | obj |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 procured | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 procured | aux |
| 12 | procured | procure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 accident | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pleasure | det |
| 14 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 procured | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 arrival | case |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 arrival | nmod:poss |
| 17 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pleasure | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 why | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 why | cc |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 why | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 why | cop |
| 22 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 learn | parataxis |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 come | nsubj |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 come | aux |
| 25 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 why | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 you | case |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 come | obl |
| 28 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 come | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 intrude | punct |
| 30 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 34 intrude | advmod |
| 31 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 32 one | det |
| 32 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 intrude | nsubj |
| 33 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 intrude | aux |
| 34 | intrude | intrude | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 come | parataxis |
| 35 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 36 us | case |
| 36 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 intrude | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 impatience | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | all impatience | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | learn | to-infinitive | the wonderful accident | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accident=Topic | |||||
| 3 | procure | present · perfect · passive | the wonderful accident | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary pleasure=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | present | that | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | come | present · perfect | I | you | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | intrude | can | no one | upon us | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | please | your arrival | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | arrive | your | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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