The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 8
I had resolved, as you know, on my return from my first voyage, to spend the rest of my days quietly in Bagdad, but very soon I grew tired of such an idle life and longed once more to find myself upon the sea.
Who acts: I, you, my · What happens: resolve, know, spend, grow, long, find · To what, where: return, rest, Bagdad, more, myself, first voyage
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, you, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 resolved | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 resolved | aux |
| 3 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 know | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 know | nsubj |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 resolved | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 return | punct |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 return | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 return | nmod:poss |
| 11 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 know | obl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 voyage | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 voyage | nmod:poss |
| 14 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 voyage | amod |
| 15 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 return | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 spend | punct |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 spend | mark |
| 18 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 know | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rest | det |
| 20 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spend | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 days | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 days | nmod:poss |
| 23 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 rest | nmod |
| 24 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 18 spend | advmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 Bagdad | case |
| 26 | Bagdad | Bagdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 spend | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 grew | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 grew | cc |
| 29 | very | very | ADV | _ | 30 soon | advmod |
| 30 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 32 grew | advmod |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 grew | nsubj |
| 32 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 resolved | conj |
| 33 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 grew | xcomp |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 life | case |
| 35 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 38 life | det:predet |
| 36 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 life | det |
| 37 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 life | amod |
| 38 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 tired | obl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 longed | cc |
| 40 | longed | long | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 grew | conj |
| 41 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 42 more | advmod |
| 42 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 40 longed | obj |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 find | mark |
| 44 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 longed | advcl |
| 45 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 44 find | obj |
| 46 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 48 sea | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 sea | det |
| 48 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 find | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 resolved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resolve | past · perfect | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | know | present | you | my return from my first voyage | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | spend | to-infinitive | you not said here | the rest of my days | Bagdad | quietly property | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Asset | ||
| 4 | grow | past | I | soon, tired property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | long | past | I not said here | more | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | find | to-infinitive | I not said here | myself | upon the sea | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Topic | |||
| 7 | return | my | my first voyage | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent from=place | |||||
| 8 | 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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