Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 70

I certainly wish you success, and regret that my own affairs are so immediately pressing that I cannot have the pleasure of attending you.

Who acts: I, own affairs, pleasure · What happens: wish, regret, press, not have, attend · To what, where: success, you, pleasure

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, own affairs, pleasure), 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 wish	nsubj
2	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	3 wish	advmod
3	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 wish	iobj
5	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wish	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 regret	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 regret	cc
8	regret	regret	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wish	conj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 pressing	mark
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 affairs	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 affairs	amod
12	affairs	affair	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 pressing	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 pressing	aux
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 pressing	advmod
15	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	16 pressing	advmod
16	pressing	press	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 regret	advcl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 have	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 have	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 have	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 have	advmod
21	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 pressing	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 pleasure	det
23	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 have	obj
24	of	of	SCONJ	_	25 attending	mark
25	attending	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 pleasure	acl
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 attending	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	wish	present	I	success	you	certainly property	tree rules
2	regret	present	I not said here				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
3	press	present · progressive	my own affairs			immediately property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	not have	can	I	the pleasure			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Patient
5	attend	gerund	the pleasure not said here		you		vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=Goal

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: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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