The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 22
I shall feel that I have a worthy successor, and shall cheerfully retire from the fatigues of government."
Who acts: I · What happens: feel, have, retire, fatigue · To what, where: worthy successor, fatigues, government
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 feel | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 feel | aux |
| 3 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 have | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 have | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 feel | ccomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 successor | det |
| 8 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 successor | amod |
| 9 | successor | successor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 retire | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 retire | cc |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 retire | aux |
| 13 | cheerfully | cheerfully | ADV | _ | 14 retire | advmod |
| 14 | retire | retire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 feel | conj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 fatigues | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fatigues | det |
| 17 | fatigues | fatigue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 retire | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 government | case |
| 19 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fatigues | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 feel | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | shall | I | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | present | I | a worthy successor | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent successor=Patient | ||||
| 3 | retire | shall | I not said here | the fatigues of government | cheerfully property | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from fatigue=Source | |||
| 4 | fatigue | government | nom fatigue «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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