The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 30

He then assured me that, even when I had lost my eye, I should be unable to remain with them, as their number was complete, and could not be added to.

Who acts: curiosity, I, number · What happens: assure, lose, be, remain, not add · To what, where: that, me, eye

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (curiosity, I, number), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 assured	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 assured	advmod
3	assured	assure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 assured	iobj
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 assured	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lost	punct
7	even	even	ADV	_	11 lost	advmod
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 lost	mark
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 lost	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lost	aux
11	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 assured	conj
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 eye	nmod:poss
13	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lost	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 unable	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 unable	nsubj
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 unable	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 unable	cop
18	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 assured	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 remain	mark
20	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 unable	xcomp
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 remain	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 complete	punct
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 complete	mark
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 number	nmod:poss
26	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 complete	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 complete	cop
28	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 assured	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 added	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 added	cc
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 added	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 added	advmod
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 added	aux:pass
34	added	add	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 complete	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	34 added	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 assured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	assure	past	curiosity	that	me	then		vn ensure-99 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Precondition i=Beneficiary that=Theme
2	lose	past · perfect	I	my eye				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Eventuality
3	is	should	I				unable property	tree rules
4	remain	to-infinitive	I not said here				with heads = head	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	heads's number				complete property	tree rules
6	not add speech: assert	could · passive	heads's number not said here					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»

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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