The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 94
We wondered much at one another, to see we were all blind of the same eye, but we had no leisure to discourse at length of our common calamities.
Who acts: We · What happens: wonder, see, be, have · To what, where: leisure · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 wondered | nsubj |
| 2 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | much | much | ADV | _ | 2 wondered | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 one | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 wondered | obl |
| 6 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 one | fixed |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 see | punct |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 see | mark |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wondered | conj |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 blind | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 blind | cop |
| 12 | all | all | ADV | _ | 13 blind | advmod |
| 13 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 see | ccomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 eye | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 eye | det |
| 16 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 eye | amod |
| 17 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 blind | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 had | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 had | cc |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 had | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wondered | parataxis |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 leisure | det |
| 23 | leisure | leisure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 had | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 discourse | mark |
| 25 | discourse | discourse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 leisure | appos |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 length | case |
| 27 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 discourse | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 calamities | case |
| 29 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 calamities | nmod:poss |
| 30 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 calamities | amod |
| 31 | calamities | calamity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 length | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wondered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | past | We | at one | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | We not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | we | of the same eye; all, blind property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | past | we | no leisure | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leisure=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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