The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 43
At last, having all the wealth that heart can desire, I will buy a beautiful country house, with horses and slaves, and then I will lead a merry life and entertain my friends.
Who acts: having, I · What happens: have, desire, buy, lead, entertain · To what, where: wealth, last, beautiful country house, merry life, friends
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 (having, I), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 desire | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 having | punct |
| 4 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 desire | csubj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 wealth | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wealth | det |
| 7 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 having | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 heart | det |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wealth | nmod:unmarked |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 desire | aux |
| 11 | desire | desire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 buy | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 buy | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 buy | aux |
| 15 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 desire | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 house | det |
| 17 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 house | amod |
| 18 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 house | compound |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 buy | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 horses | punct |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 horses | case |
| 22 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 buy | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 slaves | cc |
| 24 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 horses | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 lead | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 lead | cc |
| 27 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 lead | advmod |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 lead | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 lead | aux |
| 30 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 desire | parataxis |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 life | det |
| 32 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 life | amod |
| 33 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lead | obj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 entertain | cc |
| 35 | entertain | entertain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 lead | conj |
| 36 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 friends | nmod:poss |
| 37 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 entertain | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 desire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | all wealth that heart | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wealth=Patient | |||||
| 2 | desire | can | having | last | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | buy | future | I | a beautiful country house | with horses and slaves | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | |||
| 4 | lead | future | I | a merry life | then | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | |||
| 5 | entertain | infinitive | I not said here | my friends | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus friend=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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