The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 103
It seems almost a miracle that has led you to this house, and I am indeed glad that you have found a place of safety."
Who acts: It, miracle, I, you · What happens: seem, lead, be, find · To what, where: miracle, you, house, place
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 (It, miracle, I, you), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seems | nsubj |
| 2 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 5 miracle | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 miracle | det |
| 5 | miracle | miracle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seems | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 led | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 led | aux |
| 8 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 miracle | acl:relcl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 led | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 house | det |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 led | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 glad | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 glad | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 glad | nsubj |
| 16 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 glad | cop |
| 17 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 18 glad | advmod |
| 18 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 seems | parataxis |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 found | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 found | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 found | aux |
| 22 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 glad | advcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 place | det |
| 24 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 found | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 safety | case |
| 26 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 place | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seems | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | It | a miracle | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme miracle=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | lead | present · perfect | a miracle | you | this house | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to house=Destination | |||
| 3 | is | present | I | glad, indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | find | present · perfect | you | a place of safety | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic |
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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