The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 67
I began my married life in high spirits, and the best hopes of happiness.
Who acts: I, happiness · What happens: begin, hope · To what, where: married life, high spirits
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, happiness), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 began | nsubj |
| 2 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 life | nmod:poss |
| 4 | married | married | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 life | amod |
| 5 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 began | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 spirits | case |
| 7 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 spirits | amod |
| 8 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 began | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hopes | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 hopes | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hopes | det |
| 12 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 hopes | amod |
| 13 | hopes | hope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 began | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 happiness | case |
| 15 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hopes | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | I | my married life | high spirits | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | hope | happiness | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=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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