The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 70
The captain stared at me in amazement, but was presently convinced that I was indeed speaking the truth, and rejoiced greatly at my escape.
Who acts: captain, I, my · What happens: stare, be, speak, rejoice, escape · To what, where: amazement, truth, escape · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (captain, I, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 captain | det |
| 2 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stared | nsubj |
| 3 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 stared | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 amazement | case |
| 7 | amazement | amazement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stared | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 convinced | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 convinced | cc |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 convinced | cop |
| 11 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 12 convinced | advmod |
| 12 | convinced | convinced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stared | parataxis |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 speaking | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 speaking | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 speaking | aux |
| 16 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 17 speaking | advmod |
| 17 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 convinced | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 truth | det |
| 19 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 speaking | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 rejoiced | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 rejoiced | cc |
| 22 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stared | conj |
| 23 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 22 rejoiced | advmod |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 escape | case |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 escape | nmod:poss |
| 26 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rejoiced | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare | past | the captain | amazement | at me | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at i=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | convinced, presently property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past · progressive | I | the truth | indeed property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | rejoice | past | the captain not said here | my escape | greatly property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | escape | my | nom escape «act intransitive»: 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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