The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 82
I certainly did not expect such a proposal as I am still so young, and I confess that the idea of marrying is very distasteful to me.
Who acts: I, idea · What happens: not expect, be, confess · To what, where: proposal, me
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, idea), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 expect | nsubj |
| 2 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 5 expect | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 expect | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 expect | advmod |
| 5 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 proposal | det:predet |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 proposal | det |
| 8 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 expect | obj |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 young | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 young | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 young | cop |
| 12 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 young | advmod |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 young | advmod |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 expect | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 confess | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 confess | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 confess | nsubj |
| 18 | confess | confess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 expect | parataxis |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 distasteful | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 idea | det |
| 21 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 distasteful | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 marrying | case |
| 23 | marrying | marrying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 idea | nmod |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 distasteful | cop |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 distasteful | advmod |
| 26 | distasteful | distasteful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 confess | ccomp |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 me | case |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 distasteful | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 expect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not expect | past · do-support | I | such proposal | certainly property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proposal=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | I | still | young property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | confess | present | I | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | the idea of marrying | me | distasteful property | tree rules |
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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