The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 47

I could not of course deny that what the dervish said was perfectly reasonable, but, in spite of that, the thought that the dervish would be as rich as I was unbearable to me.

Who acts: I, dervish · What happens: not deny, say, be, spite · To what, where: spite, thought, me, that · 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 (I, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 deny	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 deny	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 deny	advmod
4	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	6 deny	advmod
5	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 of	fixed
6	deny	deny	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 reasonable	mark
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 reasonable	nsubj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dervish	det
10	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 what	acl:relcl
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 reasonable	cop
13	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	14 reasonable	advmod
14	reasonable	reasonable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 deny	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 spite	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 spite	cc
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 spite	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 spite	case
19	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 deny	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 that	case
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 spite	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 thought	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 thought	det
24	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 spite	conj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 rich	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 dervish	det
27	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 rich	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 rich	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 rich	cop
30	as	as	ADV	_	31 rich	advmod
31	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 thought	acl:relcl
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 unbearable	mark
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 unbearable	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 unbearable	cop
35	unbearable	unbearable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 rich	csubj
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 me	case
37	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 unbearable	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 deny	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not deny	could	I			spite of that and the thought		vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the dervish					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past					perfectly, reasonable property	tree rules
4	is	would	the dervish	the thought not said here			rich property	tree rules
5	is	past	I		me		unbearable property	tree rules
6	spite			that				nom spite «feeling 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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