The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 89
My eyes were so blinded by gold, that I paid no heed to his wise counsel, and only looked about for something else to grasp.
Who acts: I · What happens: blind, pay, look, grasp · To what, where: eyes, that
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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 blinded | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 blinded | aux:pass |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 blinded | advmod |
| 5 | blinded | blind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 gold | case |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blinded | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 paid | punct |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 paid | obj |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 paid | nsubj |
| 11 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 blinded | conj |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 heed | det |
| 13 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 paid | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 counsel | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 counsel | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 counsel | amod |
| 17 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 paid | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 looked | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 looked | cc |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 looked | advmod |
| 21 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 blinded | parataxis |
| 22 | about | about | ADV | _ | 21 looked | advmod |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 something | case |
| 24 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 21 looked | obl |
| 25 | else | else | ADV | _ | 24 something | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 grasp | mark |
| 27 | grasp | grasp | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 something | acl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 blinded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blind | past · passive | My eyes | by gold | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pay | past | I | that | to brother's wise counsel | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent that=Recipient heed=Asset | |||
| 3 | look | past | for something; about property | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for something=Theme | |||||
| 4 | grasp | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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