The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 82
Of the choicest of my goods I prepared a present for King Mihrage, who was at first amazed, having known that I had lost my all.
Who acts: choicest, King, I · What happens: prepare, be, have, know, lose · To what, where: present, all
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 (choicest, King, I), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 3 choicest | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 choicest | det |
| 3 | choicest | choice | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 prepared | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 goods | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 goods | nmod:poss |
| 6 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 choicest | obl |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 prepared | nsubj |
| 8 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 present | det |
| 10 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 prepared | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 King | case |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 present | nmod |
| 13 | Mihrage | Mihrage | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 King | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 amazed | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 amazed | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 amazed | cop |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 first | case |
| 18 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 amazed | obl |
| 19 | amazed | amazed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 King | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 having | punct |
| 21 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 prepared | advcl |
| 22 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 having | xcomp |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 lost | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 lost | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 lost | aux |
| 26 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 known | advcl |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 all | nmod:poss |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 lost | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 prepared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prepare | past | the choicest | a present | for King | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent present=Product for king=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | is | past | King | amazed property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | gerund | the choicest not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | know | participle | the choicest not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | lose | past · perfect | I | all | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality |
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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