The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 117
This is the day you have set apart to devote to this object, and perhaps in fulfilling this duty you may find some distraction from the melancholy to which, as I see to my sorrow, you are a prey."
Who acts: This, day, you, I, my · What happens: be, set apart, devote, fulfil, find, see · To what, where: day, you, object, duty, distraction, melancholy
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, day, you, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 day | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 day | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 set | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 set | aux |
| 7 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 day | acl:relcl |
| 8 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 7 set | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 devote | mark |
| 10 | devote | devote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 set | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 object | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 object | det |
| 13 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 devote | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fulfilling | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fulfilling | cc |
| 16 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 18 fulfilling | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 18 fulfilling | mark |
| 18 | fulfilling | fulfil | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 day | advcl |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 duty | det |
| 20 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fulfilling | obj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 find | nsubj |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 find | aux |
| 23 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 duty | acl:relcl |
| 24 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 distraction | det |
| 25 | distraction | distraction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 find | obj |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 melancholy | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 melancholy | det |
| 28 | melancholy | melancholy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 find | obl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 which | case |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 see | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 see | punct |
| 32 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 34 see | mark |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 see | nsubj |
| 34 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 melancholy | acl:relcl |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 sorrow | case |
| 36 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 sorrow | nmod:poss |
| 37 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 see | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 prey | punct |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 prey | nsubj |
| 40 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 prey | cop |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 prey | det |
| 42 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 day | appos |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 42 prey | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 prey | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | the day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | set apart | present · perfect · passive | the day not said here | you | apart property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | devote | to-infinitive | the day not said here | to this object goal | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent to object=Goal | ||||
| 4 | fulfil | gerund | This not said here | this duty | perhaps property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | find | may | you | some distraction | the melancholy | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent distraction=Theme from melancholy=Source | |||
| 6 | see | present | I | to the melancholy; to my sorrow | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | is a | present | you | a prey | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | sorrow | my | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: 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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