The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 80
Rich and happy as I was after my third voyage, I could not make up my mind to stay at home altogether.
Who acts: I, my · What happens: be, not make up, stay, mind · To what, where: mind, home
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 (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 | Rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 make | csubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 happy | cc |
| 3 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Rich | conj |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 voyage | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 voyage | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 voyage | cop |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 voyage | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 voyage | nmod:poss |
| 9 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 voyage | amod |
| 10 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 happy | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Rich | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 make | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 make | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 make | advmod |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 make | compound:prt |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mind | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 stay | mark |
| 20 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 make | advcl |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 home | case |
| 22 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stay | obl |
| 23 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 20 stay | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | after my third voyage | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not make up | could | I | my mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | stay | to-infinitive | I not said here | home | altogether property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | |||
| 4 | mind | my | nom mind «cognition 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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