The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 43
I kissed the ground and laid my hand on my head to show that I was ready to show myself worthy of the honour.
Who acts: I · What happens: kiss, lay, show, be · To what, where: ground, hand, head, worthy, myself · 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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 kissed | nsubj |
| 2 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ground | det |
| 4 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kissed | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 laid | cc |
| 6 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 kissed | conj |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hand | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 laid | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 head | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 laid | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 show | mark |
| 13 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 laid | advcl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 ready | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 ready | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 ready | cop |
| 17 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 show | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 show | mark |
| 19 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 ready | xcomp |
| 20 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 show | iobj |
| 21 | worthy | worthy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 show | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 honour | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 honour | det |
| 24 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 worthy | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | I | the ground | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | lay | past | I not said here | my hand | my head | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on head=Destination | |||
| 3 | show | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | I | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | show | to-infinitive | I not said here | worthy of the honour | myself | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent myself=Recipient worthy=Topic |
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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