The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 57

But, Commander of the Faithful, the love of gold had taken such possession of my heart, that I could not even stop to examine the riches, but fell upon the first pile of gold within my reach and began to heap it into a sack that I had brought with me.

Who acts: I · What happens: take, not stop, examine, fall, begin, heap · To what, where: Commander, riches, first pile, possession, sack, gold

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), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	13 taken	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Commander	punct
3	Commander	Commander	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 taken	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Faithful	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Faithful	det
6	Faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Commander	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 love	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 love	det
9	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 taken	nsubj:pass
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 gold	case
11	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 love	nmod
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 taken	aux
13	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 possession	amod
15	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 taken	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 heart	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 heart	nmod:poss
18	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 possession	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stop	punct
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 stop	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 stop	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 stop	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 stop	advmod
24	even	even	ADV	_	25 stop	advmod
25	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 taken	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	27 examine	mark
27	examine	examine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 stop	xcomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 riches	det
29	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 examine	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fell	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 fell	cc
32	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 taken	parataxis
33	upon	upon	ADP	_	36 pile	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 pile	det
35	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	36 pile	amod
36	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fell	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 gold	case
38	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 pile	nmod
39	within	within	ADP	_	41 reach	case
40	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 reach	nmod:poss
41	reach	reach	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fell	obl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 began	cc
43	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 fell	conj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 heap	mark
45	heap	heap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 began	xcomp
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 heap	obj
47	into	into	ADP	_	49 sack	case
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 sack	det
49	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 heap	obl
50	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 brought	nsubj:pass
51	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 brought	nsubj
52	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 brought	aux
53	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 sack	acl:relcl
54	with	with	ADP	_	55 me	case
55	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 brought	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past · perfect · passive		Commander of the Faithful			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme possession=Destination
2	not stop	could	I				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	examine	to-infinitive	I not said here	the riches			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rich=Theme
4	fall	past			the first pile of gold	within my reach	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon pile=Location
5	begin	past					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	heap	to-infinitive		possession	a sack		vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into sack=Destination
7	bring	past · perfect · passive		a sack		with me	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme
8	love			gold			nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient
9	possess			my heart			nom possession «act 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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