The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 46
Their amazement was great when they discovered me, and also their disappointment, and with one accord they fell to abusing me for having robbed them of their usual profit.
Who acts: amazement, merchants · What happens: be, discover, fall, abuse, rob, amaze · To what, where: me, merchants
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 (amazement, merchants), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 amazement | nmod:poss |
| 2 | amazement | amazement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 great | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 great | cop |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 discovered | advmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 discovered | nsubj |
| 7 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 great | advcl |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 discovered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 disappointment | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 disappointment | cc |
| 11 | also | also | ADV | _ | 13 disappointment | advmod |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 disappointment | nmod:poss |
| 13 | disappointment | disappointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 discovered | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fell | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fell | cc |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 accord | case |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 accord | nummod |
| 18 | accord | accord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fell | obl |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 fell | nsubj |
| 20 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 great | conj |
| 21 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 22 abusing | mark |
| 22 | abusing | abuse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 fell | advcl |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 abusing | obj |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 robbed | mark |
| 25 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 robbed | aux |
| 26 | robbed | rob | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 abusing | advcl |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 robbed | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 profit | case |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 profit | nmod:poss |
| 30 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 profit | amod |
| 31 | profit | profit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 robbed | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 great | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | merchants's amazement | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | discover | past | merchants = merchant | me | merchants's disappointment obl | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Topic | |||
| 3 | fall | past | merchants = merchant | with one accord | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | abuse | gerund | merchants = merchant not said here | me | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 5 | rob | gerund · perfect | merchants = merchant not said here | merchants = merchant | of merchants's usual profit | vn rob-10.6.4 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent they=Theme of profit=Source | |||
| 6 | amaze | merchants = merchant | nom amazement «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | disappoint | merchants = merchant | nom disappointment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | profit | merchants = merchant | nom profit «possession 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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