The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 31
Now I have rewarded you by saving your life.
Who acts: I · What happens: reward, save · To what, where: you, life
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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 rewarded | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 rewarded | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rewarded | aux |
| 4 | rewarded | reward | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 rewarded | obj |
| 6 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 saving | mark |
| 7 | saving | save | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 rewarded | advcl |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 life | nmod:poss |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saving | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rewarded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reward | present · perfect | I | you | now | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 2 | save | gerund | I not said here | your life | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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