The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 7

I was, of course, bound to obey, and not knowing what was to become of me I shaved my beard and eyebrows and put on the dress of a calender.

Who acts: I · What happens: be, obey, not know, become, shave, put on · To what, where: beard, dress · Speech: someone speaks here

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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:937): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

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	7 bound	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bound	cop
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bound	punct
4	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	7 bound	advmod
5	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 of	fixed
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bound	punct
7	bound	bound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 obey	mark
9	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 bound	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 shaved	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 shaved	cc
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 knowing	advmod
13	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 shaved	advcl
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 become	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 become	aux
16	to	to	PART	_	17 become	mark
17	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 knowing	ccomp
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 me	case
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 become	obl
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 shaved	nsubj
21	shaved	shave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bound	conj
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 beard	nmod:poss
23	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 shaved	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 eyebrows	cc
25	eyebrows	eyebrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 beard	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 put	cc
27	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 shaved	conj
28	on	on	ADP	_	27 put	compound:prt
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 dress	det
30	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 put	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 calender	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 calender	det
33	calender	calender	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dress	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 bound	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	I		bound property	tree rules
2	obey	to-infinitive	I not said here			vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	not know	gerund	I not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	become	past			of me	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	shave	past	I	my beard and eyebrows		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Patient
6	put on	past	I not said here	the dress of a calender		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent dress=Goal

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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