The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 58

In a moment my mind was made up, the woman who followed had nothing to expect but a lingering death; I should be doing her a service if I shortened her misery.

Who acts: moment, woman, I, my · What happens: make up, follow, have, expect, do, shorten · To what, where: mind, nothing, woman, misery

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 (moment, woman, 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 moment	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obl
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mind	nmod:poss
5	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 made	aux:pass
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 moment	acl:relcl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 made	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 moment	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woman	det
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	nsubj
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 followed	nsubj
13	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 woman	acl:relcl
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 had	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 expect	mark
17	expect	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 nothing	acl
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 death	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 death	det
20	lingering	lingering	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 death	compound
21	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 nothing	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 doing	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 doing	nsubj
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 doing	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 doing	aux
26	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 had	conj
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 doing	obj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 service	det
29	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 doing	obj
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 shortened	mark
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 shortened	nsubj
32	shortened	shorten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 doing	advcl
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 misery	nmod:poss
34	misery	misery	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 shortened	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	make up	past · passive	a moment not said here	my mind		vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot
2	follow	past	the woman			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past	the woman	nothing	moment	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
4	expect	to-infinitive	the woman not said here	nothing not said here		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	do	should · progressive	I	woman		tree rules
6	shorten a condition, not said to happen	past	I	woman's misery		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent misery=Patient
7	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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