The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 80
I soon wearied of its pleasures, and longed for change and adventure.
Who acts: I, life · What happens: weary, long, please
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, life), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wearied | nsubj |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 wearied | advmod |
| 3 | wearied | weary | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 pleasures | case |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 pleasures | nmod:poss |
| 6 | pleasures | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wearied | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 longed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 longed | cc |
| 9 | longed | long | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wearied | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 change | case |
| 11 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 longed | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 adventure | cc |
| 13 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 change | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wearied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weary | past | I | of life's pleasures; soon property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | long | past | I not said here | for change and adventure | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for change=Theme | ||||
| 3 | please | life | nom pleasure «feeling 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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