The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 41
The dervish saw quite well what was passing in my mind, but he did not show what he thought of my proposal.
Who acts: dervish, wave, my · What happens: see, pass, not show, think, mind, propose · To what, where: mind · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (dervish, wave, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dervish | det |
| 2 | dervish | dervish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 well | advmod |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 saw | advmod |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 passing | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 passing | aux |
| 8 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 mind | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mind | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 passing | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 show | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 show | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 show | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 show | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 show | advmod |
| 17 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 saw | parataxis |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 thought | obj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 thought | nsubj |
| 20 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 show | ccomp |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 proposal | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 proposal | nmod:poss |
| 23 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 thought | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the dervish | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | pass | past · progressive | my mind | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in mind=Location | |||||
| 3 | not show | past · do-support | wave | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | wave | of my proposal | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | ||||
| 5 | mind | my | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | propose | my | nom proposal «communication 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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