The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 27

However much I may have objected to matrimony formerly, the sight of this lovely girl has overcome all my prejudices, and I will gratefully receive her from your hands."

Who acts: I, my · What happens: object, overcome, receive, sight, prejudice · To what, where: matrimony, sight, girl, hands, lovely girl

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, my), 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	However	however	ADV	_	2 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADV	_	6 objected	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 objected	nsubj
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 objected	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 objected	aux
6	objected	object	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 matrimony	case
8	matrimony	matrimony	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 objected	obl
9	formerly	formerly	ADV	_	6 objected	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 overcome	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sight	det
12	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 overcome	nsubj:pass
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 girl	case
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 girl	det
15	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 girl	amod
16	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sight	nmod
17	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 overcome	aux
18	overcome	overcome	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 objected	parataxis
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 prejudices	det:predet
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 prejudices	nmod:poss
21	prejudices	prejudice	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 overcome	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 receive	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 receive	cc
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 receive	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 receive	aux
26	gratefully	gratefully	ADV	_	27 receive	advmod
27	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 overcome	conj
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 receive	obj
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 hands	case
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 hands	nmod:poss
31	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 receive	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 objected	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 objected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	object speech: other	may · perfect	I		matrimony		formerly property	vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to matrimony=Recipient
2	overcome	present · perfect · passive		the sight of this lovely girl				tree rules
3	receive	future	I	girl		your hands	gratefully property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent she=Theme from hand=Source
4	sight			this lovely girl				nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient
5	prejudice		my					nom prejudice «cognition 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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