The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 11
And I continued to press the dervish to anoint my right eye, but this he resolutely declined to do.
Who acts: I, this · What happens: continue, press, anoint, decline, not do · To what, where: dervish, right eye
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, this), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 continued | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 continued | nsubj |
| 3 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 press | mark |
| 5 | press | press | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 continued | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dervish | det |
| 7 | dervish | dervish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 press | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 anoint | mark |
| 9 | anoint | anoint | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 press | advcl |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 eye | nmod:poss |
| 11 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 eye | amod |
| 12 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 anoint | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 declined | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 declined | cc |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 declined | nsubj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 declined | nsubj |
| 17 | resolutely | resolutely | ADV | _ | 18 declined | advmod |
| 18 | declined | decline | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 continued | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 do | mark |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 declined | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | I | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | press | to-infinitive | I not said here | the dervish | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dervish=Theme | ||||
| 3 | anoint | to-infinitive | I not said here | my right eye | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 4 | decline | past | this | resolutely property | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not do | to-infinitive | this not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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