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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

nsubjcopdetnsubj:passauxacl:relcladvmodmarkxcompcasedetoblpunctccadvmodmarkadvcldetobjnsubjauxacl:relcldetobjcasedetoblcaseoblpunctmarknsubjacl:relclcasenmod:possoblpunctnsubjcopdetappospunctpunctrootThisPRONisAUXtheDETdayNOUNyouPRONhaveAUXsetVERBapartADVtoPARTdevoteVERBtoADPthisDETobjectNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJperhapsADVinSCONJfulfillingVERBthisDETdutyNOUNyouPRONmayAUXfindVERBsomeDETdistractionNOUNfromADPtheDETmelancholyNOUNtoADPwhichPRON,PUNCTasSCONJIPRONseeVERBtoADPmyPRONsorrowNOUN,PUNCTyouPRONareAUXaDETpreyNOUN.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThisthisPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem4 daynsubj
2isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 daycop
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 daydet
4daydayNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
5youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs7 setnsubj:pass
6havehaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin7 setaux
7setsetVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass4 dayacl:relcl
8apartapartADV_7 setadvmod
9totoPART_10 devotemark
10devotedevoteVERBVerbForm=Inf7 setxcomp
11totoADP_13 objectcase
12thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem13 objectdet
13objectobjectNOUNNumber=Sing10 devoteobl
14,,PUNCT_18 fulfillingpunct
15andandCCONJ_18 fulfillingcc
16perhapsperhapsADV_18 fulfillingadvmod
17ininSCONJ_18 fulfillingmark
18fulfillingfulfilVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part4 dayadvcl
19thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem20 dutydet
20dutydutyNOUNNumber=Sing18 fulfillingobj
21youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs23 findnsubj
22maymayAUXVerbForm=Fin23 findaux
23findfindVERBVerbForm=Inf20 dutyacl:relcl
24somesomeDETPronType=Ind25 distractiondet
25distractiondistractionNOUNNumber=Sing23 findobj
26fromfromADP_28 melancholycase
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 melancholydet
28melancholymelancholyNOUNNumber=Sing23 findobl
29totoADP_30 whichcase
30whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel34 seeobl
31,,PUNCT_34 seepunct
32asasSCONJ_34 seemark
33IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs34 seensubj
34seeseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin28 melancholyacl:relcl
35totoADP_37 sorrowcase
36mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs37 sorrownmod:poss
37sorrowsorrowNOUNNumber=Sing34 seeobl
38,,PUNCT_42 preypunct
39youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs42 preynsubj
40arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin42 preycop
41aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art42 preydet
42preypreyNOUNNumber=Sing4 dayappos
43..PUNCT_42 preypunct
44""PUNCT_42 preypunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is apresentThisthe daytree rules
2set apartpresent · perfect · passivethe day not said hereyouapart propertytree rules
3devoteto-infinitivethe day not said hereto this object goalvn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent to object=Goal
4fulfilgerundThis not said herethis dutyperhaps propertytree rules
5findmayyousome distractionthe melancholyvn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent distraction=Theme from melancholy=Source
6seepresentIto the melancholy; to my sorrowvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7is apresentyoua preytree rules
8sorrowmynom 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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