The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 69
"This prophecy struck the heart of my father with such woe, that he never got over it, but that did not prevent him from attending carefully to my education till I attained, a short time ago, my fifteenth birthday.
Who acts: prophecy, that, slaves, my · What happens: strike, not get, not prevent, attend, attain, educate · To what, where: heart, woe, prophecy, fifteenth birthday
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 (prophecy, that, slaves, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 struck | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 prophecy | det |
| 3 | prophecy | prophecy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 struck | nsubj |
| 4 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 heart | det |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 struck | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 father | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 father | nmod:poss |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heart | nmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 woe | case |
| 11 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 woe | amod |
| 12 | woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 father | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 got | punct |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 got | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 got | nsubj |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 got | advmod |
| 17 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 struck | conj |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 got | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 prevent | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 prevent | cc |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 prevent | nsubj |
| 23 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 prevent | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 prevent | advmod |
| 25 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 struck | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 prevent | obj |
| 27 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 28 attending | mark |
| 28 | attending | attend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 prevent | advcl |
| 29 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 28 attending | advmod |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 education | case |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 education | nmod:poss |
| 32 | education | education | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 attending | obl |
| 33 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 35 attained | mark |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 attained | nsubj |
| 35 | attained | attain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 struck | advcl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 ago | punct |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 time | det |
| 38 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 time | amod |
| 39 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 40 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 35 attained | advmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 ago | punct |
| 42 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 birthday | nmod:poss |
| 43 | fifteenth | fifteenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 birthday | amod |
| 44 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 attained | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike in a quote | past | this prophecy | the heart of my father with such woe | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not get in a quote | past | prophecy | woe | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over it=Destination | ||||
| 3 | not prevent in a quote | past · do-support | that | prophecy | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | attend in a quote | gerund | that not said here | to my education; carefully property | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to education=Theme | ||||
| 5 | attain in a quote | past | slaves = slave | my fifteenth birthday | ago property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birthday=Theme | |||
| 6 | educate in a quote | my | nom education «act 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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