The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 25
During the voyage, I discovered so many good qualities in my wife that I began to love her more and more.
Who acts: I · What happens: discover, begin, love · To what, where: many good qualities, wife
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 voyage | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 voyage | det |
| 3 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 discovered | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 voyage | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 discovered | nsubj |
| 6 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 many | advmod |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 qualities | amod |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 qualities | amod |
| 10 | qualities | quality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 discovered | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 wife | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wife | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 discovered | obl |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 began | obj |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 began | nsubj |
| 16 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 wife | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 love | mark |
| 18 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 began | xcomp |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 love | obj |
| 20 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 love | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 more | cc |
| 22 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 more | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | past | I | many good qualities | during the voyage | in my wife | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quality=Topic | ||
| 2 | begin | past | I | my wife | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | love | to-infinitive | I not said here | wife | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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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