The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 86

I could not rest as long as one solitary camel remained to the dervish; and returning to him I redoubled my prayers and embraces, and promises of eternal gratitude, till the last twenty were in my hands.

Who acts: I, my · What happens: not rest, remain, return, redouble, be, pray · To what, where: one solitary camel, proverb, prayers, eternal gratitude

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, my), 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	4 rest	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 rest	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 rest	advmod
4	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 long	advmod
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 rest	advmod
7	as	as	ADP	_	10 camel	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 camel	nummod
9	solitary	solitary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 camel	amod
10	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 long	obl
11	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 camel	acl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 dervish	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dervish	det
14	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 remained	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 redoubled	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 redoubled	cc
17	returning	return	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 redoubled	csubj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 returning	obl
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 redoubled	nsubj
21	redoubled	redouble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rest	conj
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 prayers	nmod:poss
23	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 redoubled	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 embraces	cc
25	embraces	embrace	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 prayers	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 promises	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 promises	cc
28	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 redoubled	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 gratitude	case
30	eternal	eternal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 gratitude	amod
31	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 promises	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 hands	punct
33	till	till	ADP	_	40 hands	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 hands	det
35	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 hands	amod
36	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 hands	nummod
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 hands	cop
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 hands	case
39	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 hands	nmod:poss
40	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 redoubled	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not rest	could	I				long property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	remain	participle		one solitary camel not said here			to the dervish	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	return	gerund			proverb			vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to he=Result
4	redouble	past	I	my prayers and embraces				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent prayer=Patient
5	is	past				till my last twenty hands		tree rules
6	pray		my					nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent
7	promise			eternal gratitude				nom promise «communication 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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