The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 40
In all my travels I have never before met with so cruel and horrible a law."
Who acts: I · What happens: travel, meet
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), 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 | In | in | SCONJ | _ | 4 travels | mark |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 travels | det:predet |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 travels | nmod:poss |
| 4 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 met | advcl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 met | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 met | aux |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 before | advmod |
| 8 | before | before | ADV | _ | 9 met | advmod |
| 9 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 cruel | case |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 cruel | advmod |
| 12 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 met | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 horrible | cc |
| 14 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cruel | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 law | det |
| 16 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cruel | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 met | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | present | I not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | meet | present · perfect | I | before, cruel property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: 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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