The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 82
Even the sad fate that awaits her could not hold her back."
Who acts: sad fate · What happens: await, not hold · To what, where: fate, back
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 (sad fate), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 4 fate | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fate | det |
| 3 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fate | amod |
| 4 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hold | nsubj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 awaits | nsubj |
| 6 | awaits | await | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fate | acl:relcl |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 awaits | obj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 hold | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 hold | advmod |
| 10 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 back | nmod:poss |
| 12 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hold | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 hold | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | await | present | the sad fate | fate | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not hold | could | the sad fate | fate's back | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=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.
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