The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 3

My delight was great on hearing this familiar speech, and I willingly satisfied their curiosity, telling them how I had been shipwrecked, and captured by the blacks. "

Who acts: delight, I, My · What happens: be, hear, satisfy, tell, shipwreck, capture · To what, where: familiar speech, curiosity, cocoanuts, I · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (delight, 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 delight	nmod:poss
2	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 great	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 great	cop
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	on	on	SCONJ	_	6 hearing	mark
6	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 great	advcl
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 speech	det
8	familiar	familiar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 speech	amod
9	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hearing	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 satisfied	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 satisfied	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 satisfied	nsubj
13	willingly	willingly	ADV	_	14 satisfied	advmod
14	satisfied	satisfy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 great	conj
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 curiosity	nmod:poss
16	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 satisfied	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 telling	punct
18	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 satisfied	advcl
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 telling	iobj
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 shipwrecked	advmod
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 shipwrecked	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 shipwrecked	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 shipwrecked	aux:pass
24	shipwrecked	shipwreck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 telling	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 captured	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 captured	cc
27	captured	capture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 great	conj
28	by	by	ADP	_	30 blacks	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 blacks	det
30	blacks	black	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 captured	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 great	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 great	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	My delight			great property	tree rules
2	hear	gerund	My delight not said here	this familiar speech			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer speech=Stimulus
3	satisfy	past	I	cocoanuts's curiosity		willingly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus curiosity=Experiencer
4	tell speech: assert	gerund	I not said here		cocoanuts = cocoanut		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
5	shipwreck	past · perfect · passive		I			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	capture	participle	My delight not said here			by the blacks	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	delight		My				nom delight «feeling 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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