--- title: "With the utmost pleasure," replied the Sultan; "and as I am all imp… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: "With the utmost pleasure," replied the Sultan; "and as I am all impatience to see the sister of such accomplished young men you may expect me the day after to-morrow." Who acts: Sultan, you. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43, with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/43/74/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/43/) / 74 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 74 "With the utmost pleasure," replied the Sultan; "and as I am all impatience to see the sister of such accomplished young men you may expect me the day after to-morrow." **Who acts:** Sultan, you · **What happens:** reply, be, see, accomplish, expect · **To what, where:** sister, Sultan · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, you), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg128:43:74 # text = "With the utmost pleasure," replied the Sultan; "and as I am all impatience to see the sister of such accomplished young men you may expect me the day after to-morrow." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 With with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 utmost utmost ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 pleasure pleasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Sultan Sultan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 14 as as ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 18 det _ _ 18 impatience impatience NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 acl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 25 accomplished accomplish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 amod _ _ 26 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 expect expect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl:relcl _ _ 31 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl:unmarked _ _ 34 after after ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ SpaceAfter=No 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 morrow morrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the Sultan | | | | | with the utmost pleasure | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent with pleasure=Eventuality | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the Sultan *= sultan* | | | | | as all impatience | tree rules | | 3 | **see** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Sultan *not said here* | the sister of such accomplished young men | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sister=Stimulus | | 4 | **accomplish** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **expect** *in a quote* | may | you | the Sultan *= sultan* | | | after morrow; day | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/43/73/) - next →: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/43/75/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/43/)