The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 67
The next day she will complain to her mother of the way she has been treated, which will fill my heart with joy.
Who acts: wife, way · What happens: complain, treat, fill · To what, where: wife, heart
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 (wife, way), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 complain | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 complain | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 complain | aux |
| 6 | complain | complain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 mother | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fill | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 way | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 way | det |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mother | nmod |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 treated | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 treated | aux:pass |
| 16 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 way | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fill | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 fill | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 fill | aux |
| 20 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 complain | parataxis |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 heart | nmod:poss |
| 22 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fill | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 joy | case |
| 24 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fill | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 complain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | complain speech: other | future | wife | day | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | treat | present · perfect · passive | the way not said here | wife | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | fill | future | my heart | to wife's mother of the way; with joy | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent heart=Patient with joy=Instrument |
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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