The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 95
My wife, who was present, scoffed at my compassion, which made her malice of no avail. "
Who acts: wife, compassion · What happens: be, scoff, make · To what, where: compassion, malice
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 (wife, compassion), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 present | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 present | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 present | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 present | cop |
| 6 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 scoffed | punct |
| 8 | scoffed | scoff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 present | conj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 compassion | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 compassion | nmod:poss |
| 11 | compassion | compassion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 scoffed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 made | nsubj |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 compassion | acl:relcl |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 malice | nmod:poss |
| 16 | malice | malice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 avail | case |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 avail | det |
| 19 | avail | avail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 malice | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 present | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 present | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | My wife | present property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | scoff | participle | My wife not said here | my compassion | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | make | past | my compassion | cow's malice of no avail | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset malice=Product |
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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