The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 47
How were you driven to commit such a terrible crime?"
What happens: drive, commit · To what, where: you, terrible crime
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 driven | advmod |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 driven | aux:pass |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 driven | nsubj |
| 4 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 commit | mark |
| 6 | commit | commit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 driven | xcomp |
| 7 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 crime | det:predet |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 crime | det |
| 9 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 crime | amod |
| 10 | crime | crime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 commit | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 driven | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 driven | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past · passive | you | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 2 | commit | to-infinitive | such terrible crime | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crime=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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