The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 6
Camaralzaman, pleased to be free to enjoy his books, showed himself very indifferent to his sentence.
Who acts: Camaralzaman · What happens: be, enjoy, show, sentence · To what, where: books, Camaralzaman
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 (Camaralzaman), 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 | Camaralzaman | Camaralzaman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 showed | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 pleased | punct |
| 3 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Camaralzaman | amod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 free | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 free | cop |
| 6 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pleased | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 enjoy | mark |
| 8 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 free | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 books | nmod:poss |
| 10 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 enjoy | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Camaralzaman | punct |
| 12 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 showed | iobj |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 indifferent | advmod |
| 15 | indifferent | indifferent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 showed | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 sentence | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 sentence | nmod:poss |
| 18 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 indifferent | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | to-infinitive | Camaralzaman not said here | free property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | enjoy | to-infinitive | Camaralzaman not said here | Camaralzaman's books | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer book=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | show | past | Camaralzaman | Camaralzaman | indifferent property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient | |||
| 4 | sentence | Camaralzaman | nom sentence «communication 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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