The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 47
Addressing myself to the one who seemed most aggrieved, I said: "I am sure, if you knew all that I have suffered, you would show more kindness towards me, and as for diamonds, I have enough here of the very best for you and me and all your company."
Who acts: I, one, you · What happens: address, seem, aggrieve, say, be, know · To what, where: myself, one, that, more kindness · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, one, you), 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 | Addressing | address | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 said | advcl |
| 2 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Addressing | obj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 one | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 one | det |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Addressing | obl |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 seemed | nsubj |
| 7 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 one | acl:relcl |
| 8 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 9 aggrieved | advmod |
| 9 | aggrieved | aggrieve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 seemed | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Addressing | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 sure | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 sure | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 sure | nsubj |
| 16 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 sure | cop |
| 17 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 knew | punct |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 knew | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 knew | nsubj |
| 21 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 sure | conj |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 suffered | det:predet |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 suffered | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 suffered | nsubj |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 suffered | aux |
| 26 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 knew | ccomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 show | punct |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 show | nsubj |
| 29 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 show | aux |
| 30 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 sure | parataxis |
| 31 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 32 kindness | amod |
| 32 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 show | obj |
| 33 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 34 me | case |
| 34 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 show | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 have | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 have | cc |
| 37 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 39 diamonds | case |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 as | fixed |
| 39 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 have | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 diamonds | punct |
| 41 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 have | nsubj |
| 42 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 show | parataxis |
| 43 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 44 here | advmod |
| 44 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 42 have | advmod |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 best | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 best | det |
| 47 | very | very | ADV | _ | 48 best | advmod |
| 48 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 44 here | nsubj |
| 49 | for | for | ADP | _ | 50 you | case |
| 50 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 48 best | obl |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 me | cc |
| 52 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 50 you | conj |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 company | cc |
| 54 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 56 company | det:predet |
| 55 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 56 company | nmod:poss |
| 56 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 you | conj |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 58 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | address | gerund | I not said here | myself | the one | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Destination | |||
| 2 | seem | past | the one | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | aggrieve | participle | the one not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | know a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | suffer in a quote | present · perfect · passive | that | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | show in a quote | would | you | more kindness | towards me | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent kindness=Patient towards i=Recipient | |||
| 9 | have in a quote | present | I | here | as diamonds | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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