The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 79

We have quite enough to please and interest us without troubling ourselves about that with which we have no concern."

Who acts: We, interest · What happens: have, please, trouble · To what, where: ourselves, concern

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, interest), 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 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 enough	advmod
4	enough	enough	ADV	_	2 have	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 please	mark
6	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 enough	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 interest	cc
8	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	conj
9	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 interest	nmod
10	without	without	SCONJ	_	11 troubling	mark
11	troubling	trouble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 interest	acl
12	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 troubling	obj
13	about	about	ADP	_	14 that	case
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 troubling	obl
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 which	case
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 have	obl
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
18	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 troubling	parataxis
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 concern	det
20	concern	concern	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	We		enough property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	please	to-infinitive	We not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	trouble	gerund	interest us not said here	ourselves	about interest us	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ourselves=Experiencer
4	have	present	we	no concern		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent concern=Patient

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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