The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 40
Certainly my offer does not sound very magnificent, but it was great to me, for at his words a wave of covetousness had swept over my heart, and I almost felt as if the seventy-nine camels that were left were nothing in comparison.
Who acts: offer, words, I, seventy, my, Balsora · What happens: not sound, be, sweep, feel, leave, offer · To what, where: me, wave, heart, nine camels, nothing, comparison
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (offer, words, I, seventy), 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 | Certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 3 offer | advmod |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 offer | nmod:poss |
| 3 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sound | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sound | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 sound | advmod |
| 6 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 magnificent | advmod |
| 8 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sound | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 great | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 great | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 great | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 great | cop |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sound | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 great | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 words | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 words | case |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 words | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 words | nmod:poss |
| 20 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sound | obl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 wave | det |
| 22 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 swept | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 covetousness | case |
| 24 | covetousness | covetousness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wave | nmod |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 swept | aux |
| 26 | swept | sweep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 words | acl:relcl |
| 27 | over | over | ADP | _ | 29 heart | case |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 heart | nmod:poss |
| 29 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 swept | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 felt | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 felt | cc |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 felt | nsubj |
| 33 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 34 felt | advmod |
| 34 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sound | parataxis |
| 35 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 46 nothing | mark |
| 36 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 46 nothing | mark |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 seventy | det |
| 38 | seventy | seventy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 nothing | nsubj |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 nine | punct |
| 40 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 camels | nummod |
| 41 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 seventy | conj |
| 42 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 left | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 left | aux:pass |
| 44 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 camels | acl:relcl |
| 45 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 nothing | cop |
| 46 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 34 felt | advcl |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 comparison | case |
| 48 | comparison | comparison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 nothing | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sound | present · do-support | my offer | for Balsora's words; magnificent property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | offer | me | great property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | sweep | past · perfect · passive | Balsora's words not said here | a wave of covetousness | my heart | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme over heart=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | feel | past | I | almost property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | leave | past · passive | nine camels | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is a | past | the seventy and nine camels | nothing | comparison | tree rules | |||
| 7 | offer | my | nom offer «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | word | Balsora | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | wave | covetousness | nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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