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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 3

The porter retired quite overcome by so much generosity, and you may imagine that he was well received at home, where his wife and children thanked their lucky stars that he had found such a benefactor.

Who acts: much generosity, you, wife, Sindbad · What happens: overcome, imagine, receive, thank, find · To what, where: porter, Sindbad, home, lucky stars, benefactor

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (much generosity, you, wife, Sindbad), 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

detnsubj:passaux:passadvmodcaseadvmodamodoblpunctccnsubjauxconjmarknsubjaux:passadvmodccompcaseoblpunctadvmodnmod:possnsubjccconjconjnmod:possamodobjmarknsubjauxadvcldet:predetdetobjpunctrootTheDETporterNOUNretiredVERBquiteADVovercomeVERBbyADPsoADVmuchADJgenerosityNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJyouPRONmayAUXimagineVERBthatSCONJhePRONwasAUXwellADVreceivedVERBatADPhomeNOUN,PUNCTwhereADVhisPRONwifeNOUNandCCONJchildrenNOUNthankedVERBtheirPRONluckyADJstarsNOUNthatSCONJhePRONhadAUXfoundVERBsuchDETaDETbenefactorNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 porterdet
2porterporterNOUNNumber=Sing5 overcomensubj:pass
3retiredretireVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 overcomeaux:pass
4quitequiteADV_5 overcomeadvmod
5overcomeovercomeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
6bybyADP_9 generositycase
7sosoADV_8 muchadvmod
8muchmuchADJDegree=Pos9 generosityamod
9generositygenerosityNOUNNumber=Sing5 overcomeobl
10,,PUNCT_14 imaginepunct
11andandCCONJ_14 imaginecc
12youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs14 imaginensubj
13maymayAUXVerbForm=Fin14 imagineaux
14imagineimagineVERBVerbForm=Inf5 overcomeconj
15thatthatSCONJ_19 receivedmark
16hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 receivednsubj
17wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 receivedaux:pass
18wellwellADVDegree=Pos19 receivedadvmod
19receivedreceiveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass14 imagineccomp
20atatADP_21 homecase
21homehomeNOUNNumber=Sing19 receivedobl
22,,PUNCT_28 thankedpunct
23wherewhereADVPronType=Rel28 thankedadvmod
24hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs25 wifenmod:poss
25wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing28 thankednsubj
26andandCCONJ_27 childrencc
27childrenchildNOUNNumber=Plur25 wifeconj
28thankedthankVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 receivedconj
29theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs31 starsnmod:poss
30luckyluckyADJDegree=Pos31 starsamod
31starsstarNOUNNumber=Plur28 thankedobj
32thatthatSCONJ_35 foundmark
33hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs35 foundnsubj
34hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin35 foundaux
35foundfindVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part28 thankedadvcl
36suchsuchDETPronType=Ind38 benefactordet:predet
37aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art38 benefactordet
38benefactorbenefactorNOUNNumber=Sing35 foundobj
39..PUNCT_5 overcomepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1overcomepast · passivemuch generositythe portervn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme
2imaginemayyouvn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3receivepast · passiveSindbadhomewell propertyvn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme at home=Location
4thank speech: thankpastSindbad's wife and childrenwife's lucky starsvn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent star=Theme
5findpast · perfectSindbadsuch benefactorvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent benefactor=Topic

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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