The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 77
So I told him of my escape and of my fortunate meeting with the king's grooms, and how kindly I had been received at the palace.
Who acts: I, my · What happens: tell, receive, escape · To what, where: captain, I, palace · 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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 told | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 escape | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 escape | nmod:poss |
| 7 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 meeting | cc |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 meeting | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 meeting | nmod:poss |
| 11 | fortunate | fortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 meeting | amod |
| 12 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 escape | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 grooms | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 grooms | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 king | case |
| 17 | grooms | groom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 meeting | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 received | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 received | cc |
| 20 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 kindly | advmod |
| 21 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 25 received | advmod |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 received | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 received | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 received | aux:pass |
| 25 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 told | parataxis |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 palace | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 palace | det |
| 28 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 received | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | I | captain | of my escape and my fortunate meeting with the king's grooms | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | receive | past · perfect · passive | I | the palace | kindly property | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme at palace=Location | |||
| 3 | escape | my | nom escape «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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