The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 62
My ancestors were careful people, and I inherited enough money to enable me to live comfortably, though without show.
Who acts: ancestors, I, me · What happens: be, inherit, enable, live · To what, where: careful people, enough money, 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 (ancestors, I, me), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 ancestors | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 people | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 people | cop |
| 4 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 people | amod |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 inherited | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 inherited | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 inherited | nsubj |
| 9 | inherited | inherit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 people | acl:relcl |
| 10 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 money | amod |
| 11 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 inherited | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 enable | mark |
| 13 | enable | enable | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 inherited | advcl |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 enable | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 live | mark |
| 16 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 enable | xcomp |
| 17 | comfortably | comfortably | ADV | _ | 16 live | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 show | punct |
| 19 | though | though | ADP | _ | 21 show | case |
| 20 | without | without | ADP | _ | 21 show | case |
| 21 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 live | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 people | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | My ancestors | careful people | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | inherit | past | I | enough money | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | ||||
| 3 | enable | to-infinitive | I not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | live | to-infinitive | me not said here | though show; comfortably property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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