The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 77
I had got what I wanted, but I had found the dervish so easy to deal with, that I rather regretted I had not asked for ten more.
Who acts: I · What happens: get, want, find, deal, regret, not ask · To what, where: dervish · 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), 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 | 3 got | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | aux |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 got | obj |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 wanted | nsubj |
| 6 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 found | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 found | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 found | aux |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 got | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dervish | det |
| 13 | dervish | dervish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obj |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 easy | advmod |
| 15 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 found | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 deal | mark |
| 17 | deal | deal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 easy | ccomp |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 deal | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 regretted | punct |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 regretted | mark |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 regretted | nsubj |
| 22 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 23 regretted | advmod |
| 23 | regretted | regret | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 asked | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 asked | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 asked | advmod |
| 27 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 regretted | parataxis |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 more | case |
| 29 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 more | nummod |
| 30 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 asked | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · perfect | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | want | past | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | find | past · perfect | I | the dervish | easy property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dervish=Topic | |||
| 4 | deal | to-infinitive | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | regret | past | I | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | not ask speech: ask | past · perfect | I | for ten more | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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