The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 171

We have not yet sat much together, I and Sultan Darai, nor have we yet talked much together, nor have we yet ridden out together, nor have we eaten together; yet it is fourteen days since he came.’

Who acts: We, sword, son · What happens: not sit, have, talk, ride out, eat, be · To what, where: fourteen days

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, sword, son), 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	5 sat	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 sat	advmod
4	yet	yet	ADV	_	5 sat	advmod
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 together	advmod
7	together	together	ADV	_	5 sat	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 I	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 sat	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Sultan	cc
11	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 I	conj
12	Darai	Darai	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Sultan	flat
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
14	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	15 have	cc
15	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	conj
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 talked	nsubj
17	yet	yet	ADV	_	18 talked	advmod
18	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 have	ccomp
19	much	much	ADV	_	20 together	advmod
20	together	together	ADV	_	18 talked	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 have	punct
22	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	23 have	cc
23	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 have	parataxis
24	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 ridden	nsubj
25	yet	yet	ADV	_	26 ridden	advmod
26	ridden	ride	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 have	xcomp
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 ridden	compound:prt
28	together	together	ADV	_	26 ridden	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 have	punct
30	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	31 have	cc
31	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 have	conj
32	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 eaten	nsubj
33	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 have	xcomp
34	together	together	ADV	_	33 eaten	advmod
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 days	punct
36	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	40 days	cc
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 days	nsubj
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 days	cop
39	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 days	nummod
40	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sat	obl
41	since	since	SCONJ	_	43 came	mark
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 came	nsubj
43	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	advcl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct
45	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not sit	present	We		yet	together property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	present	We not said here				tree rules
3	talk	past	we		yet	together property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	have	present					tree rules
5	ride out	participle	we		yet	together property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
6	have	present					tree rules
7	eat	participle	we			together property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is a	present	sword	fourteen days			tree rules
9	come	past	son				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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