The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 3
I would rather have remained a monkey all my life than let my benefactress perish in this shocking manner.
Who acts: I, benefactress · What happens: remain, let, perish · To what, where: monkey, benefactress, shocking manner
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 (I, benefactress), 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 | 5 remained | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 remained | aux |
| 3 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 5 remained | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 remained | aux |
| 5 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 monkey | det |
| 7 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 remained | obj |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 life | det:predet |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 life | nmod:poss |
| 10 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 remained | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 12 let | mark |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 remained | advcl |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 benefactress | nmod:poss |
| 14 | benefactress | benefactress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 let | obj |
| 15 | perish | perish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 let | xcomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 manner | case |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 manner | det |
| 18 | shocking | shocking | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 manner | amod |
| 19 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 perish | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | would · perfect | I | a monkey | my life obl:unmarked | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme monkey=Attribute | |||
| 2 | let | infinitive | I not said here | my benefactress | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | perish | infinitive | my benefactress not said here | this shocking manner | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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