The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 71
"I am glad to have that piece of carelessness off my conscience at any rate," said he. "
Who acts: captain · What happens: be, have, say · To what, where: piece · 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), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 glad | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 glad | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 glad | cop |
| 4 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 said | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 have | mark |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 glad | xcomp |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 piece | det |
| 8 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 carelessness | case |
| 10 | carelessness | carelessness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 piece | nmod |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 conscience | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 conscience | nmod:poss |
| 13 | conscience | conscience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 rate | case |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 rate | det |
| 16 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 conscience | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 glad | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 glad | punct |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | nsubj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | captain | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | to-infinitive | captain not said here | that piece of carelessness | off my conscience at any rate | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | captain | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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