The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 26
But my brothers began to be jealous of my prosperity, and set to work to plot against my life.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: begin, be, set, work, plot
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 (brothers), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 began | cc |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 3 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 began | nsubj |
| 4 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 jealous | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 jealous | cop |
| 7 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 began | xcomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 prosperity | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 prosperity | nmod:poss |
| 10 | prosperity | prosperity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 jealous | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 set | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 set | cc |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 began | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 work | mark |
| 15 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 set | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 plot | mark |
| 17 | plot | plot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 work | advcl |
| 18 | against | against | ADP | _ | 20 life | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 life | nmod:poss |
| 20 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 plot | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | my brothers | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | my brothers not said here | of my prosperity; jealous property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | set | infinitive | my brothers not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | work | to-infinitive | my brothers not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | plot | to-infinitive | my brothers not said here | against my life | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=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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