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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 porter | det |
| 2 | porter | porter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 overcome | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | retired | retire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 overcome | aux:pass |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 overcome | advmod |
| 5 | overcome | overcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 generosity | case |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 much | advmod |
| 8 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 generosity | amod |
| 9 | generosity | generosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 overcome | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 imagine | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 imagine | cc |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 imagine | nsubj |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 imagine | aux |
| 14 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 overcome | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 received | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 received | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 received | aux:pass |
| 18 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 received | advmod |
| 19 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 imagine | ccomp |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 home | case |
| 21 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 received | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 thanked | punct |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 thanked | advmod |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 wife | nmod:poss |
| 25 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 thanked | nsubj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 children | cc |
| 27 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 wife | conj |
| 28 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 received | conj |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 stars | nmod:poss |
| 30 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 stars | amod |
| 31 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 thanked | obj |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 found | mark |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 found | nsubj |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 found | aux |
| 35 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 thanked | advcl |
| 36 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 38 benefactor | det:predet |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 benefactor | det |
| 38 | benefactor | benefactor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 found | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 overcome | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overcome | past · passive | much generosity | the porter | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | imagine | may | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | receive | past · passive | Sindbad | home | well property | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme at home=Location | |||
| 4 | thank speech: thank | past | Sindbad's wife and children | wife's lucky stars | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent star=Theme | ||||
| 5 | find | past · perfect | Sindbad | such benefactor | vn 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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