The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 44
I am delighted at the opportunity of speaking for a few moments with so holy a person."
Who acts: I, opportunity · What happens: be, speak · To what, where: opportunity · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, opportunity), 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 delighted | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 delighted | cop |
| 3 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 opportunity | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 opportunity | det |
| 6 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 delighted | obl |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 speaking | mark |
| 8 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 opportunity | acl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 moments | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 moments | det |
| 11 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 moments | amod |
| 12 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 speaking | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 person | case |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 holy | advmod |
| 15 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 person | amod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 person | det |
| 17 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 speaking | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 delighted | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | the opportunity | delighted property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | the opportunity not said here | moment | with a holy person | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with person=Co-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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