The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 93
I was nearly struck dumb with horror on seeing my wife with this hideous female ghoul.
What happens: strike, see · To what, where: I, wife
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: 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 | 4 struck | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 struck | aux:pass |
| 3 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 4 struck | advmod |
| 4 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 struck | xcomp |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 horror | case |
| 7 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 struck | obl |
| 8 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 9 seeing | mark |
| 9 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 struck | advcl |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wife | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seeing | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 ghoul | case |
| 13 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 ghoul | nsubj |
| 14 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ghoul | amod |
| 15 | female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ghoul | amod |
| 16 | ghoul | ghoul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seeing | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past · passive | I | with horror; dumb, nearly property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with horror=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | my wife | with hideous female ghoul | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus |
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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