The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 68
After a very short time the pleasant easy life I led made me quite forget the perils of my two voyages.
Who acts: I, pleasant easy life, my · What happens: lead, make, forget, peril, voyage · To what, where: pleasant easy life, me, perils, two voyages
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, pleasant easy life, my), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 short | advmod |
| 4 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 life | det |
| 7 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 life | amod |
| 8 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 life | amod |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | nsubj |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 led | nsubj |
| 11 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 life | acl:relcl |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 made | obj |
| 14 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 15 forget | advmod |
| 15 | forget | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 made | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 perils | det |
| 17 | perils | peril | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 forget | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 voyages | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 voyages | nmod:poss |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 voyages | nummod |
| 21 | voyages | voyage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 perils | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | I | the pleasant easy life not said here | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past | the pleasant easy life | me | time | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product | |||
| 3 | forget | present | the pleasant easy life not said here | the perils of my two voyages | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | peril | my two voyages | nom peril «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | voyage | my | nom voyage «act transitive»: 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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