The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 10
We felt deeply sorry for his death, but fearing lest we should be held responsible, we carried the corpse to the house of the Jewish doctor.
Who acts: We, hunchback · What happens: feel, fear, hold, carry, die · To what, where: we, corpse, house · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, hunchback), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 4 sorry | advmod |
| 4 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 felt | xcomp |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 death | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 death | nmod:poss |
| 7 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sorry | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 carried | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 carried | cc |
| 10 | fearing | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 carried | advcl |
| 11 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 15 held | mark |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 held | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 held | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 held | aux:pass |
| 15 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 fearing | ccomp |
| 16 | responsible | responsible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 held | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fearing | punct |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 carried | nsubj |
| 19 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 felt | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 corpse | det |
| 21 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 carried | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 house | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 house | det |
| 24 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 carried | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 doctor | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 doctor | det |
| 27 | Jewish | Jewish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 doctor | amod |
| 28 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 house | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | We | sorry property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | fear | gerund | we not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | hold | should · passive | we | responsible property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | carry | past | we | the corpse | the house of the Jewish doctor | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent corpse=Theme to house=Destination | |||
| 5 | die | hunchback | nom death «event intransitive»: 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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