--- title: We have not yet sat much together, I and Sultan Darai, nor have we y… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: We have not yet sat much together, I and Sultan Darai, nor have we yet talked much together, nor have we yet ridden out together, nor have we eaten together; yet it is fourteen days since he came.’ Who acts: We, sword, son. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, sword, son), 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:pg641:15:171 # text = We have not yet sat much together, I and Sultan Darai, nor have we yet talked much together, nor have we yet ridden out together, nor have we eaten together; yet it is fourteen days since he came.’ 1 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 4 yet yet ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 much much ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 together together ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 conj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 Sultan Sultan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 Darai Darai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 15 cc _ _ 15 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 16 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 yet yet ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 talked talk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ _ 19 much much ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 together together ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 23 cc _ _ 23 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 24 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 yet yet ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 ridden ride VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 xcomp _ _ 27 out out ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 together together ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 31 cc _ _ 31 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 32 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 xcomp _ _ 34 together together ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ; ; PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 36 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 38 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 39 fourteen fourteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 40 nummod _ _ 40 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 41 since since SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 42 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **sit** | present | We | | | | yet | together *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **have** | present | We *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **talk** | past | we | | | | yet | together *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **have** | present | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **ride out** | participle | we | | | | yet | together *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **have** | present | | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **eat** | participle | we | | | | | together *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **is a** | present | sword | fourteen days | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **come** | past | son | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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 170](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/170/) - next →: [sentence 172](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/172/) - ↑ back to [The Story of a Gazelle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/)