The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 5
Unluckily, in spite of my having proved the truth of the dervish's words in so many instances, I was firmly convinced that he was now keeping concealed from me some hidden and precious virtue of the ointment.
Who acts: spite, I, dervish, hidden virtue · What happens: prove, be, keep, conceal, word · To what, where: truth, many instances, hidden virtue
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 (spite, I, dervish, hidden virtue), 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 | Unluckily | unluckily | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Unluckily | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 spite | case |
| 4 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Unluckily | obl |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 proved | mark |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 proved | nmod:poss |
| 7 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 proved | aux |
| 8 | proved | prove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 spite | acl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 truth | det |
| 10 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 proved | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 words | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dervish | det |
| 13 | dervish | dervish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 words | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 dervish | case |
| 15 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 truth | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 instances | case |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 many | advmod |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 instances | amod |
| 19 | instances | instance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 proved | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 convinced | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 convinced | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 convinced | cop |
| 23 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 24 convinced | advmod |
| 24 | convinced | convinced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 instances | parataxis |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 keeping | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 keeping | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 keeping | aux |
| 28 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 keeping | advmod |
| 29 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 convinced | advcl |
| 30 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 keeping | xcomp |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 me | case |
| 32 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 keeping | obl |
| 33 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 37 virtue | det |
| 34 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 virtue | amod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 precious | cc |
| 36 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 hidden | conj |
| 37 | virtue | virtue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 keeping | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 ointment | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 ointment | det |
| 40 | ointment | ointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 virtue | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Unluckily | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove | gerund · perfect | spite not said here | the truth of the dervish's words | many instances | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | I | convinced, firmly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | keep | past · progressive | dervish | some hidden virtue of the ointment | now | from me | tree rules | ||
| 4 | conceal | participle | some hidden virtue of the ointment not said here | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | word | the dervish | nom word «communication transitive»: 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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