The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 23
Into what a bottomless pit has my lust after gold plunged me.
Who acts: bottomless pit, gold, my · What happens: have, plunge, lust · To what, where: lust, me
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 (bottomless pit, gold, my), 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 | Into | into | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pit | det |
| 4 | bottomless | bottomless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pit | amod |
| 5 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 what | acl:relcl |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 lust | nmod:poss |
| 8 | lust | lust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | obj |
| 9 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 11 plunged | mark |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 plunged | nsubj |
| 11 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lust | acl:relcl |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 plunged | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a bottomless pit | my lust | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lust=Patient | ||||
| 2 | plunge | past | gold | me | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lust | my | nom lust «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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