The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 12
I had the curiosity to ascend to its very summit, for this was the place to which Adam was banished out of Paradise.
Who acts: I, this · What happens: have, ascend, be, banish · To what, where: curiosity, summit, Adam, Paradise
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, this), 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 | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 curiosity | det |
| 4 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 ascend | mark |
| 6 | ascend | ascend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 curiosity | acl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 summit | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 summit | nmod:poss |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 summit | advmod |
| 10 | summit | summit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ascend | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 place | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 place | case |
| 13 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 place | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 place | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 place | det |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ascend | obl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 banished | obl |
| 19 | Adam | Adam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 banished | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 banished | aux:pass |
| 21 | banished | banish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 place | acl:relcl |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 Paradise | case |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Paradise | case |
| 24 | Paradise | Paradise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 banished | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | I | the curiosity | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curiosity=Patient | ||||
| 2 | ascend | to-infinitive | I not said here | the curiosity not said here | curiosity's summit | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to summit=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | is | past | this | for the place | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | banish | past · passive | Adam | Paradise | to the place | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme out paradise=Source |
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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