The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 121
"At these words, of Genius," continued the old man, "I leave you to imagine my astonishment.
Who acts: words, Father, my · What happens: continue, leave, imagine, astonish · To what, where: old man, you, astonishment
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 (words, Father, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 continued | punct |
| 2 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 words | case |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 words | det |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 continued | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Genius | punct |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Genius | case |
| 7 | Genius | Genius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 words | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Genius | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Genius | punct |
| 10 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 continued | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 leave | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 leave | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 leave | nsubj |
| 17 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 continued | conj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 leave | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 imagine | mark |
| 20 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 leave | advcl |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 astonishment | nmod:poss |
| 22 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 imagine | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | this words | the old man | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave in a quote | present | Father | you | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | imagine in a quote | to-infinitive | Father not said here | my astonishment | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot astonishment=Theme | ||||
| 4 | astonish in a quote | my | nom astonishment «feeling 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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