The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 43
It was open to me to keep my secret, and to reserve the treasure for myself.
Who acts: dervish · What happens: be, keep, reserve · To what, where: me, secret, treasure
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), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 open | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 open | cop |
| 3 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 open | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 keep | mark |
| 7 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 open | advcl |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 secret | nmod:poss |
| 9 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keep | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 reserve | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 reserve | cc |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 reserve | mark |
| 13 | reserve | reserve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 keep | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 treasure | det |
| 15 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reserve | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 myself | case |
| 17 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 reserve | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | dervish | me | open property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | dervish not said here | my secret | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reserve | to-infinitive | dervish not said here | the treasure | for myself | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme for myself=Beneficiary |
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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