The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 90
My unlucky companions having lost their reason, felt neither anxiety nor fear, and ate greedily all that was offered them.
Who acts: unlucky companions · What happens: have, lose, feel, eat, offer · To what, where: lost reason, anxiety, that, companions
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 (unlucky companions), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 companions | nmod:poss |
| 2 | unlucky | unlucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 companions | amod |
| 3 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 companions | acl |
| 5 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 reason | amod |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 reason | nmod:poss |
| 7 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 having | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 felt | punct |
| 9 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 11 anxiety | cc:preconj |
| 11 | anxiety | anxiety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 felt | obj |
| 12 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 13 fear | cc |
| 13 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 anxiety | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ate | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ate | cc |
| 16 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 felt | conj |
| 17 | greedily | greedily | ADV | _ | 16 ate | advmod |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 offered | det:predet |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 offered | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 offered | aux:pass |
| 21 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 ate | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 offered | iobj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | My unlucky companions not said here | companions's lost reason | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | feel | past | My unlucky companions | anxiety nor fear | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anxiety=Theme | ||||
| 4 | eat | past | My unlucky companions not said here | greedily property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | offer | past · passive | that | companions = companion | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal they=Theme |
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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