The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 133

He consented joyfully, but before they were married, the young girl changed my wife into a hind, and it is she whom you see before you.

Who acts: maiden, young girl, gratitude, you · What happens: consent, marry, change, be, see · To what, where: others, wife, hind

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 (maiden, young girl, gratitude, you), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 consented	nsubj
2	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	joyfully	joyfully	ADV	_	2 consented	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 changed	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 changed	cc
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 married	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 married	nsubj:pass
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 married	aux:pass
9	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 changed	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 married	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 girl	det
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 girl	amod
13	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 changed	nsubj
14	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 consented	conj
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 wife	nmod:poss
16	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 changed	obj
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 hind	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 hind	det
19	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 changed	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 whom	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 whom	cc
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 whom	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 whom	cop
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 whom	nsubj
25	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 consented	parataxis
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 see	nsubj
27	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 whom	acl:relcl
28	before	before	ADP	_	29 you	case
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 see	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 consented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	consent	past	maiden			joyfully property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	marry	past · passive		others = other			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	change	past	the young girl	my wife		into a hind result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent wife=Patient into hind=Result
4	is a	present	gratitude				tree rules
5	see	present	you		before you		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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