The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 41
I was now of an age to appreciate a quiet life, and I had run risks enough.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, appreciate, run · To what, where: quiet life, risks
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), 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 | 6 age | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 age | cop |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 age | advmod |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 age | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 age | det |
| 6 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 appreciate | mark |
| 8 | appreciate | appreciate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 age | acl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 life | det |
| 10 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 life | amod |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 appreciate | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 run | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 run | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 run | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 run | aux |
| 16 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 age | acl |
| 17 | risks | risk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 run | obj |
| 18 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 16 run | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 age | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | of a age; now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | appreciate | to-infinitive | a quiet life | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer life=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | run | past · perfect | I | risks | enough property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme risk=Trajectory |
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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