The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 36
The enamoured Camaralzaman has never forgotten the moment when, contemplating your sleeping beauty, he gave you his heart.
Who acts: enamoured Camaralzaman, Prince · What happens: enamour, not forget, contemplate, give · To what, where: sleeping beauty, heart, you
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 (enamoured Camaralzaman, Prince), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Camaralzaman | det |
| 2 | enamoured | enamour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Camaralzaman | amod |
| 3 | Camaralzaman | Camaralzaman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 forgotten | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 forgotten | aux |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 forgotten | advmod |
| 6 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 moment | det |
| 8 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 forgotten | obj |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 contemplating | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 contemplating | punct |
| 11 | contemplating | contemplate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 forgotten | advcl |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 beauty | compound |
| 14 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 contemplating | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gave | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gave | nsubj |
| 17 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 forgotten | conj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 gave | iobj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 heart | nmod:poss |
| 20 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gave | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 forgotten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enamour | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | not forget | present · perfect | the enamoured Camaralzaman | moment | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | contemplate | gerund | the enamoured Camaralzaman not said here | your sleeping beauty | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give | past | Prince | Prince's heart | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient heart=Theme |
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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