The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 65
Weeping, I assured them of my prudence, and after embracing me tenderly, they went their ways.
Who acts: I, doors · What happens: assure, embrace, go · To what, where: doors, me, ways
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 (I, doors), 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 | Weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 assured | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Weeping | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 assured | nsubj |
| 4 | assured | assure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 assured | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 prudence | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 prudence | nmod:poss |
| 8 | prudence | prudence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 assured | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 11 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 12 embracing | mark |
| 12 | embracing | embrace | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 went | advcl |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 embracing | obj |
| 14 | tenderly | tenderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 embracing | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 embracing | punct |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 assured | conj |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 ways | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 went | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 assured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assure | past | I | doors = door | of my prudence; Weeping vocative | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Recipient of prudence=Topic | |||
| 2 | embrace | gerund | doors = door not said here | me | tenderly property | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | go | past | doors = door | doors's ways | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |
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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