The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 50
With this I gave him a long account of some of my strangest adventures, to which he listened patiently.
Who acts: I, Majesty, my · What happens: give, listen, adventure · To what, where: long account, Majesty
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, Majesty, 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 gave | obl |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 account | det |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 account | amod |
| 8 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 some | case |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 account | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 adventures | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 adventures | nmod:poss |
| 13 | strangest | strange | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 adventures | amod |
| 14 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 some | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 listened | punct |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 listened | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 listened | nsubj |
| 19 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | parataxis |
| 20 | patiently | patiently | ADV | _ | 19 listened | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | I | a long account of some | Majesty | with this | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient account=Theme | ||
| 2 | listen | past | Majesty | patiently property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to which=Theme | ||||
| 3 | adventure | my | nom adventure «act transitive»: 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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