The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 30
I am so struck by its results, that I would try it on myself."
Who acts: results, I, dress · What happens: strike, try, result · To what, where: I, dress
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (results, I, dress), 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 | 4 struck | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 struck | aux:pass |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 struck | advmod |
| 4 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 results | case |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 results | nmod:poss |
| 7 | results | result | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 struck | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 try | punct |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 try | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 try | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 try | aux |
| 12 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 struck | parataxis |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 try | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 myself | case |
| 15 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 try | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 struck | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | present · passive | dress's results | I | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent subject=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | try | would | I | dress | on myself | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | result | dress | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |
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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