The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 10
Your father will doubtless be plunged in the deepest grief," he went on, "but his joy at your return will be all the greater."
Who acts: father, joy, your · What happens: plunge, go, be, joy, return · To what, where: father, deepest grief, return · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, joy, your), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 plunged | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 plunged | aux |
| 4 | doubtless | doubtless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 plunged | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 plunged | aux:pass |
| 6 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 grief | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 grief | det |
| 9 | deepest | deep | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 grief | amod |
| 10 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 plunged | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 plunged | parataxis |
| 15 | on | on | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 on | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 greater | cc |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 joy | nmod:poss |
| 20 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 greater | nsubj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 return | case |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 return | nmod:poss |
| 23 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 joy | nmod |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 greater | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 greater | cop |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 greater | det:predet |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 greater | det |
| 28 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 went | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 plunged | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 plunged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plunge | future · passive | Your father | the deepest grief | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | past | father | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | future | father's joy at your return | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | joy | father | your return | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent at=place | |||||
| 5 | return | your | nom return «communication intransitive»: 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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