The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 63
Feeling perfectly bewildered by my sudden return to life and light, I murmured to myself in Arabic, "Close thine eyes, and while thou sleepest Heaven will change thy fortune from evil to good."
Who acts: I, thou, my · What happens: feel, bewilder, murmur, sleep, change, return · To what, where: Close, myself, Arabic, Heaven, fortune, evil · Speech: someone speaks here
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, thou, my), 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 | Feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 murmured | advcl |
| 2 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 3 bewildered | advmod |
| 3 | bewildered | bewilder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Feeling | xcomp |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 return | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 return | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 return | amod |
| 7 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bewildered | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 life | case |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 return | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 light | cc |
| 11 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 return | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Feeling | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 murmured | nsubj |
| 14 | murmured | murmur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 myself | case |
| 16 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 murmured | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 Arabic | case |
| 18 | Arabic | Arabic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 murmured | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Close | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Close | punct |
| 21 | Close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 murmured | obl |
| 22 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 Close | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 change | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 change | cc |
| 26 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 28 sleepest | mark |
| 27 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 28 sleepest | nsubj |
| 28 | sleepest | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 change | advcl |
| 29 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 sleepest | obj |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 change | aux |
| 31 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 murmured | parataxis |
| 32 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 33 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 33 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 change | obj |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 evil | case |
| 35 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 change | obl |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 good | case |
| 37 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 change | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 change | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 change | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | gerund | I not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bewilder | participle | I not said here | by my sudden return to life and light; perfectly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | murmur speech: other | past | I | Close | myself | Arabic | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to myself=Recipient clause=Topic | ||
| 4 | sleep in a quote | present | thou | Heaven | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heaven=Theme | ||||
| 5 | change in a quote | future | thy fortune | evil | to good | tree rules | |||
| 6 | return | my | to life | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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