The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 51
When he tried to say good-bye he was quite overcome with grief, and with difficulty tore himself away.
Who acts: merchant · What happens: try, say, overcome · To what, where: good bye, merchant · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (merchant), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 tried | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 say | mark |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | xcomp |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bye | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 good | punct |
| 8 | bye | bye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | obj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 overcome | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 overcome | aux:pass |
| 11 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 12 overcome | advmod |
| 12 | overcome | overcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 bye | acl:relcl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 grief | case |
| 14 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 overcome | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 away | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 away | cc |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 tore | case |
| 18 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tore | compound |
| 19 | tore | tore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 away | obl |
| 20 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 away | nsubj |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 tried | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | merchant | away property | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | merchant not said here | good bye | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bye=Topic | ||||
| 3 | overcome | past · passive | merchant | with grief | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: 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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