The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 79
Not even all that I had gone through could make me contented with a quiet life.
Who acts: that, me · What happens: go, make, content · To what, where: me
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 (that, me), 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 | Not | not | PART | ExtPos=CCONJ Polarity=Neg | 7 gone | cc |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 3 all | advmod |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 Not | fixed |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 gone | nsubj |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 gone | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gone | aux |
| 7 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 make | case |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 make | aux |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 gone | parataxis |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 make | obj |
| 12 | contented | content | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 make | xcomp |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 life | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 life | det |
| 15 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 life | amod |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 contented | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | that | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make | could | me | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | content | participle | me not said here | with a quiet life | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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