The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 9
The island on which I found myself was full of people, and abounded in all sorts of desirable things, and a great deal of traffic went on in the capital, where I soon began to feel at home and contented.
Who acts: I, island, great deal · What happens: find, be, abound, go on, begin, feel · To what, where: myself, island, sorts, capital, home, desirable things
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, island, great deal), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 island | det |
| 2 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 full | nsubj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 which | case |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 found | obl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 found | nsubj |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 island | acl:relcl |
| 7 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 found | obj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 full | cop |
| 9 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 people | case |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 full | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 abounded | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 abounded | cc |
| 14 | abounded | abound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 full | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 sorts | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 sorts | det |
| 17 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 abounded | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 things | case |
| 19 | desirable | desirable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 things | amod |
| 20 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sorts | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 went | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 went | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 deal | det |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 deal | amod |
| 25 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 went | nsubj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 traffic | case |
| 27 | traffic | traffic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 deal | nmod |
| 28 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 full | parataxis |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 went | compound:prt |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 capital | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 capital | det |
| 32 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 went | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 began | punct |
| 34 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 37 began | advmod |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 began | nsubj |
| 36 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 37 began | advmod |
| 37 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 went | conj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 feel | mark |
| 39 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 began | xcomp |
| 40 | at | at | ADP | _ | 41 home | case |
| 41 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 feel | obl |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 contented | cc |
| 43 | contented | content | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 went | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | I | myself | the island | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Topic | |||
| 2 | is | past | the island | of people; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | abound | participle | the island not said here | all sorts of desirable things | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sort=Location | ||||
| 4 | go on | past | a great deal of traffic | the capital | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in capital=Location | ||||
| 5 | begin | past | I | soon property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | feel | to-infinitive | I not said here | home | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at home=Location | ||||
| 7 | content | past | a great deal of traffic not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | sort | desirable things | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 9 | deal | traffic | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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