The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 3

But as all this time I had been obliged to keep my right eye closed, which was very fatiguing, I begged the dervish to apply the ointment to that eye also.

Who acts: right eye, I · What happens: oblige, keep, close, fatigue, beg, apply · To what, where: I, right eye, dervish, ointment

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 (right eye, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 obliged	cc
2	as	as	ADP	_	5 time	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 time	det:predet
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 obliged	obl
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 obliged	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 obliged	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 obliged	aux:pass
9	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 begged	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 keep	mark
11	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 obliged	advcl
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 eye	nmod:poss
13	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 eye	amod
14	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 keep	obj
15	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 keep	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fatiguing	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 fatiguing	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 fatiguing	aux
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 fatiguing	advmod
20	fatiguing	fatigue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 keep	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 begged	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 begged	nsubj
23	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 dervish	det
25	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 begged	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 apply	mark
27	apply	apply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 begged	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 ointment	det
29	ointment	ointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 apply	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 eye	case
31	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 eye	det
32	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 apply	obl
33	also	also	ADV	_	27 apply	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	oblige	past · perfect · passive		I	time		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	keep	to-infinitive		my right eye			tree rules
3	close	participle	my right eye not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	fatigue	past · progressive					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	beg speech: request	past	I	the dervish			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent dervish=Recipient
6	apply	to-infinitive	I not said here	the ointment		to that eye	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ointment=Theme

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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