The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 13
It was fate that deprived them of the sight of their right eyes, but mine was lost by my own folly.
Who acts: Calendar, fate, own folly · What happens: be, deprive, lose, sight · To what, where: fate, friends, mine, right eyes
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Calendar, fate, own folly), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fate | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fate | cop |
| 3 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 deprived | nsubj |
| 5 | deprived | deprive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fate | acl:relcl |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 deprived | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sight | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sight | det |
| 9 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deprived | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 eyes | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 eyes | amod |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sight | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lost | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 lost | cc |
| 16 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 lost | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 lost | aux:pass |
| 18 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 deprived | parataxis |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 folly | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 folly | nmod:poss |
| 21 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 folly | amod |
| 22 | folly | folly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lost | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Calendar | fate | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | deprive | past | fate | friends = friend | of the sight of friends's right eyes | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Source of sight=Theme | |||
| 3 | lose | past · passive | my own folly | mine | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | sight | friends's right eyes | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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