The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 34
It must be a marvel to you how, after having five times met with shipwreck and unheard of perils, I could again tempt fortune and risk fresh trouble.
Who acts: voyage, marvel, I · What happens: be, have, meet, tempt, risk · To what, where: marvel, five times, fortune, fresh trouble
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voyage, marvel, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 marvel | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 marvel | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 marvel | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 marvel | det |
| 5 | marvel | marvel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 marvel | conj |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 you | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 having | punct |
| 10 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 11 having | mark |
| 11 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 marvel | acl |
| 12 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 times | nummod |
| 13 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 having | obj |
| 14 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 times | acl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 shipwreck | case |
| 16 | shipwreck | shipwreck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 met | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 unheard | cc |
| 18 | unheard | unheard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 shipwreck | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 perils | case |
| 20 | perils | peril | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 unheard | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 tempt | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 tempt | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 tempt | aux |
| 24 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 tempt | advmod |
| 25 | tempt | tempt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 marvel | parataxis |
| 26 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tempt | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 risk | cc |
| 28 | risk | risk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 tempt | conj |
| 29 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 trouble | amod |
| 30 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 risk | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 marvel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | must | voyage | a marvel | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund | a marvel not said here | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | meet | participle | five times not said here | with shipwreck | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with shipwreck=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | tempt | could | I | fortune | again | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Recipient | |||
| 5 | risk | infinitive | I not said here | fresh trouble | vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Pivot |
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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