The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 61
For fear of wearying you I pass over in silence many other wonderful things which we saw in this island.
Who acts: fear, I, we · What happens: weary, pass over, see · To what, where: you, many other wonderful things, silence, island
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 (fear, I, we), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 fear | case |
| 2 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pass | obl |
| 3 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 4 wearying | mark |
| 4 | wearying | weary | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 fear | acl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 wearying | obj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 pass | nsubj |
| 7 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | over | over | ADV | _ | 7 pass | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 silence | case |
| 10 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pass | obl |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 things | amod |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 things | amod |
| 13 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 things | amod |
| 14 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pass | obj |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 saw | obj |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 things | acl:relcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 island | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 island | det |
| 20 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weary | gerund | fear not said here | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | pass over | present | I | many other wonderful things | silence | for fear; over property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent thing=Theme in silence=Destination | ||
| 3 | see | past | we | many other wonderful things | this island | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
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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