The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 35
But, indeed, I have no inclination to change my state, for where could I find so happy a life amidst so many beautiful and delightful surroundings?
Who acts: I, inclination · What happens: have, change, find · To what, where: inclination, state, happy life amidst
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, inclination), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 have | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 3 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 6 have | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 have | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 inclination | det |
| 8 | inclination | inclination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 change | mark |
| 10 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 have | xcomp |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 state | nmod:poss |
| 12 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 change | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 find | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 find | mark |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 find | advmod |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 find | aux |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 find | nsubj |
| 18 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 change | advcl |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 happy | advmod |
| 20 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 amidst | amod |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 amidst | det |
| 22 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 amidst | compound |
| 23 | amidst | amidst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 find | obj |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 many | advmod |
| 25 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 surroundings | amod |
| 26 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 surroundings | amod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 delightful | cc |
| 28 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 beautiful | conj |
| 29 | surroundings | surroundings | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 18 find | obj |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | no inclination | indeed property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | change | to-infinitive | no inclination not said here | my state | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=Patient | ||||
| 3 | find | could | I | a happy life amidst | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent amidst=Theme surroundings=Attribute |
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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