The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 9
You may imagine that I praised his generosity and gave him grateful thanks, nor did I fail to present myself daily in his audience chamber, and for the rest of my time I amused myself in seeing all that was most worthy of attention in the city.
Who acts: You, I, that · What happens: imagine, praise, give, fail, not present, amuse · To what, where: generosity, grateful thanks, Heaven, myself, audience chamber · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (You, I, that), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 imagine | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 imagine | aux |
| 3 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 praised | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 praised | nsubj |
| 6 | praised | praise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 imagine | ccomp |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 generosity | nmod:poss |
| 8 | generosity | generosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 praised | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 gave | cc |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 praised | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gave | iobj |
| 12 | grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 thanks | amod |
| 13 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 10 gave | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fail | punct |
| 15 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 18 fail | cc |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 fail | aux |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 fail | nsubj |
| 18 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 imagine | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 present | mark |
| 20 | present | present | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 fail | xcomp |
| 21 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 present | obj |
| 22 | daily | daily | ADV | _ | 20 present | advmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 chamber | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 25 | audience | audience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 chamber | compound |
| 26 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 present | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 amused | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 amused | cc |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 rest | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 rest | det |
| 31 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 amused | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 time | case |
| 33 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 time | nmod:poss |
| 34 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 rest | nmod |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 amused | nsubj |
| 36 | amused | amuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 fail | parataxis |
| 37 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 36 amused | obj |
| 38 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 39 seeing | mark |
| 39 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 amused | advcl |
| 40 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 44 worthy | det:predet |
| 41 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 44 worthy | nsubj |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 worthy | cop |
| 43 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 44 worthy | advmod |
| 44 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 seeing | ccomp |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 attention | case |
| 46 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 worthy | obl |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 city | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 city | det |
| 49 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 attention | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | may | You | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | praise | past | I | Heaven's generosity | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent generosity=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | past | I not said here | grateful thanks | Heaven | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient thanks=Theme | |||
| 4 | fail | past · do-support | I | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | not present | to-infinitive | I not said here | myself | Heaven's audience chamber | daily property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme | ||
| 6 | amuse | past | I | myself | for the rest of my time | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus myself=Experiencer | |||
| 7 | see | gerund | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | is | past | that | of attention in the city; worthy property | tree rules |
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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