The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 37
Since you have, perhaps, heard but confused accounts of my seven voyages, and the dangers and wonders that I have met with by sea and land, I will now give you a full and true account of them, which I think you will be well pleased to hear."
Who acts: you, dangers, I, my · What happens: have, hear, meet, give, think, be · To what, where: confused accounts, full account, you, seven voyages, accounts · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, dangers, I, 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 | Since | since | SCONJ | _ | 3 have | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 heard | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 5 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 7 heard | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 heard | punct |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 accounts | cc |
| 9 | confused | confused | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 accounts | amod |
| 10 | accounts | account | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 heard | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 voyages | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 voyages | nmod:poss |
| 13 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 voyages | nummod |
| 14 | voyages | voyage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 accounts | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 give | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 give | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 dangers | det |
| 18 | dangers | danger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 give | nsubj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 wonders | cc |
| 20 | wonders | wonder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 dangers | conj |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 met | nsubj |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 met | nsubj |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 met | aux |
| 24 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 dangers | acl:relcl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 sea | case |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 sea | case |
| 27 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 met | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 land | cc |
| 29 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sea | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dangers | punct |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 give | nsubj |
| 32 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 give | aux |
| 33 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 give | advmod |
| 34 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 heard | conj |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 give | iobj |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 account | det |
| 37 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 account | amod |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 true | cc |
| 39 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 full | conj |
| 40 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 give | obj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 them | case |
| 42 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 account | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 think | punct |
| 44 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 46 think | obj |
| 45 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 46 think | nsubj |
| 46 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 give | parataxis |
| 47 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 51 pleased | nsubj |
| 48 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 51 pleased | aux |
| 49 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 51 pleased | cop |
| 50 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 51 pleased | advmod |
| 51 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 think | ccomp |
| 52 | to | to | PART | _ | 53 hear | mark |
| 53 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 51 pleased | xcomp |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 heard | punct |
| 55 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hear | past | confused accounts of my seven voyages | perhaps property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer account=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | meet | present · perfect | the dangers and wonders | with sea and land | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with sea=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | give | future | the dangers and wonders | a full account of accounts | you | now | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient account=Theme | ||
| 5 | think speech: other | present | I | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot which=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is | future | you | pleased, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | hear | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | account | my seven voyages | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 9 | voyage | my | nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 10 | account | accounts = account | nom account «communication transitive»: of=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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