The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 49
Indeed, I have made a vow never again to leave Bagdad."
Who acts: I · What happens: make, leave · To what, where: vow, Bagdad
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 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 5 made | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Indeed | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 made | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | aux |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 vow | det |
| 7 | vow | vow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obj |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 again | advmod |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 leave | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 leave | mark |
| 11 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 made | advcl |
| 12 | Bagdad | bagdad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 leave | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 leave | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · perfect | I | a vow | indeed property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vow=Product | |||
| 2 | leave | to-infinitive | I not said here | Bagdad | again | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bagdad=Theme |
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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