The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 68
I was soon supplied with all I needed, and having satisfied my hunger I told them faithfully all that had befallen me.
Who acts: I, that, my · What happens: supply, need, have, tell, befall, hunger · To what, where: I, hunger, eyes, me · 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, that, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 supplied | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 supplied | aux:pass |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 supplied | advmod |
| 4 | supplied | supply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 all | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 supplied | obl |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 needed | nsubj |
| 8 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 all | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 having | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 having | cc |
| 11 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 supplied | advcl |
| 12 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 having | xcomp |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hunger | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 having | obj |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 told | nsubj |
| 16 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 hunger | acl:relcl |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 told | iobj |
| 18 | faithfully | faithfully | ADV | _ | 19 all | advmod |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 befallen | det:predet |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 befallen | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 befallen | aux |
| 22 | befallen | befall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 told | ccomp |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 befallen | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 supplied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | supply | past · passive | I | with all; soon property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with all=Theme | ||||
| 2 | need | past | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | have | gerund | my hunger | satisfied property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunger=Patient | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | I | my hunger not said here | eyes = eye | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 5 | befall | past · perfect | that | me | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | hunger | my | nom hunger «state intransitive»: 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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