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title: We had only so much time as to come hither to implore those favours… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: We had only so much time as to come hither to implore those favours which you have been generously pleased to grant us. Who acts: We, favours. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 95

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We had only so much time as to come hither to implore those favours which you have been generously pleased to grant us.

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**Who acts:** We, favours · **What happens:** have, come, implore, be, grant · **To what, where:** favours, us

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, favours), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg128:12:95
# text = We had only so much time as to come hither to implore those favours which you have been generously pleased to grant us.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
10	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	implore	implore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	favours	favour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	cop	_	_
19	generously	generously	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	acl:relcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	grant	grant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
23	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | We |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | to-infinitive | We *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hither *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **implore** | to-infinitive | We *not said here* | that favours |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** | present · perfect | that favours |  |  |  |  | generously, pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **grant** | to-infinitive | that favours *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent we=Theme |

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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.

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**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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