The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 4
I examined my accounts, and found that I had doubled my capital--that is, that I now possessed two thousand sequins.
Who acts: I, that, my · What happens: examine, find, double, be, account · To what, where: accounts, capital · Speech: someone speaks here
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, that, my), 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 examined | nsubj |
| 2 | examined | examine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 accounts | nmod:poss |
| 4 | accounts | account | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 examined | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 found | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 found | cc |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 examined | conj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 doubled | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 doubled | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 doubled | aux |
| 11 | doubled | double | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 found | ccomp |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 capital | nmod:poss |
| 13 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 doubled | obj |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 possessed | punct |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 possessed | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 possessed | cop |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 possessed | punct |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 possessed | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 possessed | nsubj |
| 20 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 possessed | advmod |
| 21 | possessed | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 examined | conj |
| 22 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 thousand | compound |
| 23 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 sequins | nummod |
| 24 | sequins | sequin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 possessed | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 examined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | examine | past | I | my accounts | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | I not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | double | past · perfect | I | my capital | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent capital=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | present | that | now | possess property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | account | my | nom account «communication 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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