The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 82
The accident, so fatal to all his profits, had restored my brother to his senses, and seeing that the mischief had been caused by his own insufferable pride, he rent his clothes and tore his hair, and lamented himself so loudly that the passers-by stopped to listen.
Who acts: herald, own insufferable pride · What happens: restore, see, cause, rend, tore, lament · To what, where: accident, mischief, clothes, hair, herald, passers
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 (herald, own insufferable pride), 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 | 2 accident | det |
| 2 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 restored | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fatal | punct |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 fatal | advmod |
| 5 | fatal | fatal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 accident | conj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 profits | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 profits | det:predet |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 profits | nmod:poss |
| 9 | profits | profit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fatal | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 accident | punct |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 restored | aux |
| 12 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 brother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 restored | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 senses | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 senses | nmod:poss |
| 17 | senses | sens | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 restored | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 rent | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 rent | cc |
| 20 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 rent | advcl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 caused | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 mischief | det |
| 23 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 caused | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 caused | aux |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 caused | aux:pass |
| 26 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 seeing | advcl |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 pride | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 pride | nmod:poss |
| 29 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 pride | amod |
| 30 | insufferable | insufferable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 pride | amod |
| 31 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 caused | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 seeing | punct |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 rent | nsubj |
| 34 | rent | rend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 restored | parataxis |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 36 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 34 rent | obj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 tore | cc |
| 38 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 rent | conj |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 hair | nmod:poss |
| 40 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 tore | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 lamented | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 lamented | cc |
| 43 | lamented | lament | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 rent | conj |
| 44 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 43 lamented | obj |
| 45 | so | so | ADV | _ | 46 loudly | advmod |
| 46 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 43 lamented | advmod |
| 47 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 52 stopped | mark |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 passers | det |
| 49 | passers | passer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 stopped | nsubj:pass |
| 50 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 52 stopped | punct |
| 51 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 52 stopped | mark |
| 52 | stopped | stop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 lamented | advcl |
| 53 | to | to | PART | _ | 54 listen | mark |
| 54 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 52 stopped | xcomp |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 restored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | restore | past · perfect · passive | the accident | to herald's senses | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | herald not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | cause | past · perfect · passive | herald's own insufferable pride | the mischief | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | rend | past | herald | herald's clothes | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient | ||||
| 5 | tore | past | herald not said here | herald's hair | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | lament | past | herald not said here | herald | loudly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus | |||
| 7 | stop | participle · passive | the passers | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | listen | to-infinitive | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 9 | profit | herald | nom profit «possession intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 10 | pride | herald | nom pride «feeling transitive»: 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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