The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 79
Of this we were not left long in doubt.
What happens: not leave · To what, where: we, doubt
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: 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 left | obl |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 left | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 left | aux:pass |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 left | advmod |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 left | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 doubt | case |
| 9 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 left | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not leave | past · passive | we | doubt | of this | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in doubt=Location |
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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