The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 90
Suddenly I remembered the little box of ointment that the dervish had hidden, and which most likely contained a treasure more precious than all the rest.
Who acts: I · What happens: remember, hide, contain · To what, where: little box, dervish, treasure
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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 remembered | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 remembered | nsubj |
| 3 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 box | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 box | amod |
| 6 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remembered | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 ointment | case |
| 8 | ointment | ointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 box | nmod |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 hidden | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dervish | det |
| 11 | dervish | dervish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hidden | aux |
| 13 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 remembered | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 contained | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 contained | cc |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 contained | obj |
| 17 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 18 likely | advmod |
| 18 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 19 contained | advmod |
| 19 | contained | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 remembered | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 treasure | det |
| 21 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 contained | obj |
| 22 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 precious | advmod |
| 23 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 contained | xcomp |
| 24 | than | than | ADP | _ | 27 rest | case |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 rest | det:predet |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 rest | det |
| 27 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 precious | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past | I | the little box of ointment | suddenly property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent box=Theme | |||
| 2 | hide | past · perfect · passive | the dervish | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | contain | past | I not said here | a treasure | likely, precious property | tree rules |
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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