The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 92
Moreover, he had once more lost the Princess Badoura's talisman, which he feared he might never see again.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: have, lose, fear, not see · To what, where: talisman · 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 (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 | Moreover | moreover | ADV | _ | 4 had | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Moreover | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 lost | advmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 lost | advmod |
| 7 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Badoura | det |
| 9 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Badoura | compound |
| 10 | Badoura | Badoura | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 talisman | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Badoura | case |
| 12 | talisman | talisman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lost | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 feared | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 feared | obj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 feared | nsubj |
| 16 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 talisman | acl:relcl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 see | nsubj |
| 18 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 see | aux |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 see | advmod |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 feared | ccomp |
| 21 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 see | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Prince | moreover property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lose | past | Prince not said here | the Princess Badoura's talisman | once property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talisman=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | fear | past | Prince | the Princess Badoura's talisman | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not see | might | Prince | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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