The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 22

And not only did my handwriting completely eclipse that of the merchants, but it is hardly too much to say that none so beautiful had ever before been seen in that country.

Who acts: handwriting, my · What happens: not do, be, say, see, handwrite · To what, where: handwriting, merchants, none, country · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (handwriting, my), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 did	cc
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 did	advmod
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 handwriting	nmod:poss
6	handwriting	handwriting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	completely	completely	ADV	_	8 eclipse	advmod
8	eclipse	eclipse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 eclipse	dep
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 merchants	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 merchants	det
12	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 that	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 much	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 much	cc
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 much	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 much	cop
17	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	19 much	advmod
18	too	too	ADV	_	19 much	advmod
19	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 merchants	acl:relcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 say	mark
21	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 much	acl
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 seen	mark
23	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	30 seen	nsubj:pass
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 beautiful	advmod
25	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 none	amod
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 seen	aux
27	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	30 seen	advmod
28	before	before	ADV	_	30 seen	advmod
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 seen	aux:pass
30	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 say	ccomp
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 country	case
32	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 country	det
33	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 seen	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	past		my handwriting			eclipse obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handwriting=Eventuality
2	is	present	handwriting	the merchants not said here			hardly, much property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	see	past · perfect · passive		none	that country	ever	before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
5	handwrite		my					nom handwriting «communication 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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