The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 105

As usual, she persisted in only picking a few grains of rice, and I resolved to speak to her at once of what lay so heavily on my heart.

Who acts: Amina, I · What happens: persist, pick, resolve, speak, lie · To what, where: few grains, Amina, heart · 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 (Amina, 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	As	as	ADP	_	2 usual	case
2	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 persisted	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 usual	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 persisted	nsubj
5	persisted	persist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	SCONJ	_	8 picking	mark
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 picking	advmod
8	picking	pick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 persisted	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 grains	det
10	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 grains	amod
11	grains	grain	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 picking	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 rice	case
13	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grains	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 resolved	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 resolved	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 resolved	nsubj
17	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 persisted	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 speak	mark
19	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 resolved	xcomp
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 speak	obl
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 once	case
23	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	19 speak	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 what	case
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 once	obl
26	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 what	acl:relcl
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 heavily	advmod
28	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	26 lay	advmod
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 heart	case
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 heart	nmod:poss
31	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lay	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 persisted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	persist	past	Amina				as usual	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pick	gerund	Amina not said here	a few grains of rice				vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Patient
3	resolve	past	I					tree rules
4	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	I not said here		Amina			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent
5	lie	past				my heart	heavily property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on heart=Location

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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