The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 51

The blow was so heavy that his mind almost gave way, and he declared that he was quite sure that at bottom all women were as wicked as the sultana, if you could only find them out, and that the fewer the world contained the better.

Who acts: blow, mind, Schahriar, women, you, world · What happens: be, give, declare, find out, contain, mind · To what, where: way, women, better

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blow, mind, Schahriar, women), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 blow	det
2	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heavy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heavy	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 heavy	advmod
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 gave	mark
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mind	nmod:poss
8	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	nsubj
9	almost	almost	ADV	_	10 gave	advmod
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heavy	advcl
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 declared	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 declared	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 declared	nsubj
15	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gave	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 sure	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sure	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 sure	cop
19	quite	quite	ADV	_	20 sure	advmod
20	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 declared	advcl
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 bottom	mark
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 bottom	case
23	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sure	ccomp
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 women	det
25	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 wicked	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 wicked	cop
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 wicked	advmod
28	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 sure	ccomp
29	as	as	ADP	_	31 sultana	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sultana	det
31	sultana	sultana	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wicked	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 find	punct
33	if	if	SCONJ	_	37 find	mark
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 find	nsubj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 find	aux
36	only	only	ADV	_	37 find	advmod
37	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 wicked	parataxis
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 find	obj
39	out	out	ADP	_	37 find	compound:prt
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 contained	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 contained	cc
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 contained	mark
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 fewer	det
44	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	47 contained	advmod
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 world	det
46	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 contained	nsubj
47	contained	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heavy	conj
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 better	det
49	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	47 contained	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 heavy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the blow		heavy property	tree rules
2	give	past	Schahriar's mind	way	almost property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
3	declare speech: other	past	Schahriar			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	Schahriar		sure property	tree rules
5	is	past	all women		as the sultana; wicked property	tree rules
6	find out a condition, not said to happen	could	you	women = woman		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
7	contain	past	the world	the better		vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot good=Theme
8	mind		Schahriar			nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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.

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