The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 99
This would not have happened if I had only noticed the last pomegranate seed and eaten it like the rest.
Who acts: This, I · What happens: not happen, notice, eat · To what, where: last pomegranate seed, seed
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 (This, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 happened | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 happened | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 happened | aux |
| 5 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 noticed | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 noticed | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 noticed | aux |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 noticed | advmod |
| 10 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 happened | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 seed | det |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 seed | amod |
| 13 | pomegranate | pomegranate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seed | compound |
| 14 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 noticed | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 eaten | cc |
| 16 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 happened | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 eaten | obj |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 rest | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rest | det |
| 20 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 eaten | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not happen | would · perfect | This | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | notice a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | I | the last pomegranate seed | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer seed=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | eat | participle | This not said here | seed | like the rest | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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