The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 35

I am even surprised myself when I look back, but evidently it was my fate to rove, and after a year of repose I prepared to make a sixth voyage, regardless of the entreaties of my friends and relations, who did all they could to keep me at home.

Who acts: I, voyage, friends, relations · What happens: surprise, look back, be, rove, prepare, make · To what, where: I, fate, sixth voyage, me, home

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 (I, voyage, friends, relations), 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	4 surprised	nsubj:pass
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 surprised	aux:pass
3	even	even	ADV	_	4 surprised	advmod
4	surprised	surprise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	4 surprised	obl:unmarked
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 look	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 look	nsubj
8	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 surprised	advcl
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 look	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fate	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 fate	cc
12	evidently	evidently	ADV	_	16 fate	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fate	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 fate	cop
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 fate	nmod:poss
16	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 surprised	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 rove	mark
18	rove	rove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 fate	acl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 prepared	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 prepared	cc
21	after	after	ADP	_	23 year	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 year	det
23	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 prepared	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 repose	case
25	repose	repose	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 year	nmod
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 prepared	nsubj
27	prepared	prepare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 surprised	parataxis
28	to	to	PART	_	29 make	mark
29	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 prepared	xcomp
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 voyage	det
31	sixth	sixth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 voyage	amod
32	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 make	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 regardless	punct
34	regardless	regardless	ADV	_	46 all	advmod
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 entreaties	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 entreaties	det
37	entreaties	entreaty	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 regardless	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 friends	case
39	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 friends	nmod:poss
40	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 entreaties	nmod
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 relations	cc
42	relations	relation	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 friends	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 did	punct
44	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 did	nsubj
45	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 friends	acl:relcl
46	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 prepared	conj
47	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 keep	nsubj
48	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 keep	aux
49	to	to	PART	_	50 keep	mark
50	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 prepared	parataxis
51	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 keep	obj
52	at	at	ADP	_	53 home	case
53	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 keep	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	surprise	present · passive		I			myself obl:unmarked	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	look back	present	I					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	is a	past	voyage	my fate			evidently property	tree rules
4	rove	to-infinitive						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	prepare	past	I			year		vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
6	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	a sixth voyage				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset voyage=Product
7	do	past	my friends and relations					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	keep	could	relations = relation	me	home			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme at home=Location

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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