The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 68
Cursed be the goods which have led me to my ruin."
Who acts: my · What happens: curse, be, lead, ruin · To what, where: Cursed goods
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: who acts (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 | Cursed | curse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 goods | amod |
| 2 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 goods | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 goods | det |
| 4 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 7 led | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 led | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 led | aux |
| 7 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 led | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 ruin | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 ruin | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ruin | ruin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 led | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 led | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curse | participle | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | infinitive | the Cursed goods | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lead | present · perfect · passive | the Cursed goods | to my ruin | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | ruin | my | nom ruin «state 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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