The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 81
Whether in consequence of his great age, or of the fatigues and excitement of the previous day, I do not know, but the gardener passed a very bad night.
Who acts: I, gardener · What happens: not know, pass, fatigue · To what, where: previous day · Speech: someone speaks here
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, gardener), 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 | Whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 3 consequence | mark |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 consequence | case |
| 3 | consequence | consequence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 know | advcl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 age | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 age | nmod:poss |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 age | amod |
| 7 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 consequence | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fatigues | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 fatigues | cc |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 fatigues | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fatigues | det |
| 12 | fatigues | fatigue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 consequence | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 excitement | cc |
| 14 | excitement | excitement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fatigues | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 day | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 day | det |
| 17 | previous | previous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 day | amod |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fatigues | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 consequence | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 know | nsubj |
| 21 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 know | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 know | advmod |
| 23 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 passed | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 passed | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 gardener | det |
| 27 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 passed | nsubj |
| 28 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 know | ccomp |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 night | det |
| 30 | very | very | ADV | _ | 31 bad | advmod |
| 31 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 night | amod |
| 32 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | pass | past | the gardener | night | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fatigue | the previous day | 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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