The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 63
We embraced each other tenderly, and I poured out my gratitude for the honour he had done me, in singling me out for this great wealth, and having said a hearty farewell we turned our backs, and hastened after our camels.
Who acts: We, I, thing · What happens: embrace, pour out, do, single out, have, say · To what, where: each, gratitude, honour, me, hearty farewell, backs · 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 (We, I, thing), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 embraced | nsubj |
| 2 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 embraced | obj |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tenderly | amod |
| 5 | tenderly | tenderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 each | acl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 poured | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 poured | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 poured | nsubj |
| 9 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 embraced | parataxis |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 poured | compound:prt |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 gratitude | nmod:poss |
| 12 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 poured | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 honour | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 honour | det |
| 15 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 poured | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 done | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 done | aux |
| 18 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 honour | acl:relcl |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 done | iobj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 singling | punct |
| 21 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 22 singling | mark |
| 22 | singling | single | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 poured | advcl |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 singling | obj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 singling | compound:prt |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 wealth | case |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 wealth | det |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 wealth | amod |
| 28 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 singling | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 said | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 said | cc |
| 31 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 said | ccomp |
| 32 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 embraced | parataxis |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 farewell | det |
| 34 | hearty | hearty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 farewell | amod |
| 35 | farewell | farewell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 said | obj |
| 36 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 turned | nsubj |
| 37 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 farewell | acl:relcl |
| 38 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 backs | nmod:poss |
| 39 | backs | back | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 turned | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 hastened | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 hastened | cc |
| 42 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 said | conj |
| 43 | after | after | ADP | _ | 45 camels | case |
| 44 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 camels | nmod:poss |
| 45 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 hastened | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 embraced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embrace | past | We | each | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | pour out | past | I | my gratitude | for the honour | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent gratitude=Patient for honour=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | thing | the honour not said here | me | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | single out | gerund | I not said here | me | for this great wealth | tree rules | |||
| 5 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | a hearty farewell | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | turn | past | we | our backs | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme | ||||
| 8 | hasten | participle | after our camels | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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