The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 119

I smile with joy at seeing him still alive, and I weep to think of his mother, who was sacrificed yesterday as a cow.

Who acts: I · What happens: smile, see, weep, think, sacrifice · To what, where: calf, mother

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 smile	nsubj
2	smile	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 joy	case
4	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smile	obl
5	at	at	SCONJ	_	6 seeing	mark
6	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 smile	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 seeing	obj
8	still	still	ADV	_	9 alive	advmod
9	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 seeing	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 weep	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 weep	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 weep	nsubj
13	weep	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 smile	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 think	mark
15	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 weep	xcomp
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 mother	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 mother	nmod:poss
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 think	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sacrificed	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 sacrificed	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 sacrificed	aux:pass
22	sacrificed	sacrifice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 mother	acl:relcl
23	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sacrificed	obl:unmarked
24	as	as	ADP	_	26 cow	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 cow	det
26	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sacrificed	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 smile	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	smile	present	I			with joy	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see	gerund	I not said here	calf		alive property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	weep	present	I				tree rules
4	think speech: other	to-infinitive	I not said here			of calf's mother	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sacrifice	past · passive		calf's mother	yesterday	as a cow	vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=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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