The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 74
"With the utmost pleasure," replied the Sultan; "and as I am all impatience to see the sister of such accomplished young men you may expect me the day after to-morrow."
Who acts: Sultan, you · What happens: reply, be, see, accomplish, expect · To what, where: sister, Sultan · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, you), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 2 | With | with | ADP | _ | 5 pleasure | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pleasure | det |
| 4 | utmost | utmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pleasure | amod |
| 5 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleasure | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleasure | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Sultan | det |
| 10 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 impatience | cc |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 impatience | case |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 impatience | nsubj |
| 16 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 impatience | cop |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 impatience | det |
| 18 | impatience | impatience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 see | mark |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 impatience | acl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sister | det |
| 22 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 see | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 men | case |
| 24 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 men | amod |
| 25 | accomplished | accomplish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 men | amod |
| 26 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 men | amod |
| 27 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 sister | nmod |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 expect | nsubj |
| 29 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 expect | aux |
| 30 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 men | acl:relcl |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 expect | obj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 day | det |
| 33 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 expect | obl:unmarked |
| 34 | after | after | ADP | _ | 37 morrow | case |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 morrow | case |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 to | punct |
| 37 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 expect | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 impatience | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 impatience | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the Sultan | with the utmost pleasure | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent with pleasure=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the Sultan = sultan | as all impatience | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | the Sultan not said here | the sister of such accomplished young men | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sister=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | accomplish in a quote | participle | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | expect in a quote | may | you | the Sultan = sultan | after morrow; day | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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