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title: My delight at the prospect of mixing once more with human beings was… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: My delight at the prospect of mixing once more with human beings was somewhat damped at the thought of the miserable object I must seem. Who acts: I, My. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 46

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My delight at the prospect of mixing once more with human beings was somewhat damped at the thought of the miserable object I must seem.

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**Who acts:** I, My · **What happens:** damp, seem, delight, prospect, think · **To what, where:** delight, thought, miserable object, prospect, mixing

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, My), 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:pg128:8:46
# text = My delight at the prospect of mixing once more with human beings was somewhat damped at the thought of the miserable object I must seem.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	prospect	prospect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	mixing	mixing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	9	advmod	_	_
9	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	damped	damp	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	seem	seem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **damp** | past · passive |  | My delight at the prospect of mixing with human beings |  | the thought of the miserable object |  | somewhat *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **seem** | must | I | the miserable object *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme object=Attribute |
| 3 | **delight** |  | My |  |  | the prospect of mixing |  | with human beings | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent at=place with=obl |
| 4 | **prospect** |  |  | mixing |  |  |  |  | nom prospect «state transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **think** |  |  | the miserable object |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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