The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 43

I believed him, and so great is my affection for Noureddin that I would willingly pass my life with him."

Who acts: I · What happens: believe, be, pass · To what, where: father, great affection, that

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 (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	2 believed	nsubj
2	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 believed	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 affection	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 affection	cc
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 great	advmod
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 affection	amod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 affection	cop
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 affection	nmod:poss
10	affection	affection	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 believed	parataxis
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 Noureddin	case
12	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 affection	nmod
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 pass	obj
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 pass	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 pass	aux
16	willingly	willingly	ADV	_	17 pass	advmod
17	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 affection	parataxis
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 life	nmod:poss
19	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pass	obj
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 pass	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 pass	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 pass	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	believe	past	I	father		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	is a	present		my great affection	for Noureddin	tree rules
3	pass	would	I	that	with father; willingly property	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent that=Recipient life=Theme

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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