The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 22
Nevertheless I had every intention of escaping at the first opportunity, and going back to Bagdad.
Who acts: I, intention · What happens: have, escape, go back · To what, where: intention, first opportunity, Bagdad
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, intention), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:1347): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 3 had | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 intention | det |
| 5 | intention | intention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 escaping | mark |
| 7 | escaping | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 intention | acl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 opportunity | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 opportunity | det |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 opportunity | amod |
| 11 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 escaping | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 going | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 going | cc |
| 14 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 escaping | conj |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 going | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Bagdad | case |
| 17 | Bagdad | Bagdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 going | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | I | every intention | nevertheless property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intention=Patient | |||
| 2 | escape | gerund | every intention not said here | the first opportunity | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go back | gerund | every intention not said here | Bagdad | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to bagdad=Result |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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