The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 63
Alas! hitherto it has been only a source of misfortune to me, being the cause of my separation from the one I love best on earth.
Who acts: use, I, my · What happens: be, love, separate · To what, where: source, cause, earth
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (use, I, my), 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 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 9 source | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Alas | punct |
| 3 | hitherto | hitherto | ADV | _ | 9 source | advmod |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 source | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 source | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 source | cop |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 source | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 source | det |
| 9 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 misfortune | case |
| 11 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 source | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 misfortune | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cause | punct |
| 15 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 cause | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cause | det |
| 17 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 source | parataxis |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 separation | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 separation | nmod:poss |
| 20 | separation | separation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 love | obl |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 one | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 one | det |
| 23 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 separation | nmod |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 love | nsubj |
| 25 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 cause | parataxis |
| 26 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 25 love | advmod |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 earth | case |
| 28 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 love | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 source | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present · perfect | use | a source | of misfortune to me; hitherto property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | gerund | the cause | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | love | present | I | earth | of my separation from the one; well property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | separate | my | from the one | nom separation «state intransitive»: poss=agent from=obl |
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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