The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 86
I could not imagine what she was going to do, and as my curiosity was great I made up my mind to follow her.
Who acts: I, Amina, curiosity, my · What happens: not imagine, go, do, be, make up, follow · To what, where: mind, Amina
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, Amina, curiosity, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:2902): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
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 | 4 imagine | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 imagine | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 imagine | advmod |
| 4 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 do | obj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 going | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 going | aux |
| 8 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 imagine | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 do | mark |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 going | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 made | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 made | cc |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 great | mark |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 curiosity | nmod:poss |
| 15 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 great | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 great | cop |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 made | advcl |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 made | nsubj |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 imagine | conj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 made | compound:prt |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 mind | nmod:poss |
| 22 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 follow | mark |
| 24 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 mind | acl |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 follow | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not imagine | could | I | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | Amina | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | Amina not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | is | past | my curiosity | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make up | past | I | my mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 6 | follow | to-infinitive | I not said here | Amina | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 7 | mind | my | nom mind «cognition 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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