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title: I certainly wish you success, and regret that my own affairs are so… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I certainly wish you success, and regret that my own affairs are so immediately pressing that I cannot have the pleasure of attending you. Who acts: I, own affairs, pleasure. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 70

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I certainly wish you success, and regret that my own affairs are so immediately pressing that I cannot have the pleasure of attending you.

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**Who acts:** I, own affairs, pleasure · **What happens:** wish, regret, press, not have, attend · **To what, where:** success, you, pleasure

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, own affairs, pleasure), 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:pg976:22:70
# text = I certainly wish you success, and regret that my own affairs are so immediately pressing that I cannot have the pleasure of attending you.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	success	success	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	regret	regret	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	affairs	affair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	pressing	press	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	attending	attend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | present | I | success | you |  |  | certainly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **regret** | present | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **press** | present · progressive | my own affairs |  |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **have** | can | I | the pleasure |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Patient |
| 5 | **attend** | gerund | the pleasure *not said here* |  | you |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=Goal |

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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:** «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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