The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 10

But I would not believe, and, dazzled by the greed of avarice, I thought that if one eye could show me riches, the other might teach me how to get possession of them.

Who acts: I, one eye, riches · What happens: not believe, dazzle, think, show, teach, get · To what, where: me, possession · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, one eye, riches), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 believe	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 believe	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 believe	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 believe	advmod
5	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dazzled	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 dazzled	cc
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dazzled	punct
9	dazzled	dazzle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 believe	ccomp
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 greed	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 greed	det
12	greed	greed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dazzled	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 avarice	case
14	avarice	avarice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 greed	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thought	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 thought	nsubj
17	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dazzled	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 show	mark
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 show	mark
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 eye	nummod
21	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 show	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 show	aux
23	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 thought	ccomp
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 show	iobj
25	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 teach	nsubj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 other	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 other	det
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 riches	amod
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 teach	aux
30	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 show	ccomp
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 teach	obj
32	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	34 get	advmod
33	to	to	PART	_	34 get	mark
34	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 teach	xcomp
35	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 get	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 them	case
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 get	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 believe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not believe	would	I				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	dazzle	participle				by the greed of avarice	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	think speech: other	past	I				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	show a condition, not said to happen	could	one eye		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
5	teach speech: other	might	riches		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
6	get	to-infinitive	riches not said here	possession		of riches = rich	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer possession=Stimulus

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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