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title: For, while I am enjoying the society of the most amiable of all prin… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: For, while I am enjoying the society of the most amiable of all princesses, he is, I am quite convinced, plunged in the deepest grief, having lost all hope of seeing me again. Who acts: I, father, hope. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38, with its depe
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 81

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For, while I am enjoying the society of the most amiable of all princesses, he is, I am quite convinced, plunged in the deepest grief, having lost all hope of seeing me again.

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**Who acts:** I, father, hope · **What happens:** enjoy, be, plunge, lose, see · **To what, where:** society, princesses, hope, me

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, father, hope), 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:pg128:38:81
# text = For, while I am enjoying the society of the most amiable of all princesses, he is, I am quite convinced, plunged in the deepest grief, having lost all hope of seeing me again.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	enjoying	enjoy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	society	society	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	12	advmod	_	_
12	amiable	amiable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	acl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	princesses	princess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	convinced	convinced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	plunged	plunge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	deepest	deep	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	29	amod	_	_
29	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	aux	_	_
32	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	_
33	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	det	_	_
34	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
36	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	acl	_	_
37	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	again	again	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enjoy** | present · progressive | I | the society |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer society=Stimulus |
| 2 | **be** | present | father | all princesses *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot princess=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | convinced *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **plunge** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in the deepest grief | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in grief=Attribute |
| 5 | **lose** | gerund · perfect | I *not said here* | all hope |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Eventuality |
| 6 | **see** | gerund | all hope *not said here* | me |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |

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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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