The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 1
I had no sooner uttered these words than Amina, who instantly understood that I had followed her to the grave-yard, was seized with a passion beyond any that I have ever witnessed.
Who acts: I, words · What happens: have, utter, understand, follow, seize, witness · To what, where: words, I
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, words), 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 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 sooner | det |
| 4 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 uttered | advmod |
| 5 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | advcl |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 words | det |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 uttered | obj |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 Amina | case |
| 9 | Amina | Amina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 words | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 understood | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 understood | nsubj |
| 12 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 13 understood | advmod |
| 13 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 words | acl:relcl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 followed | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 followed | aux |
| 17 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 understood | advcl |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 followed | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 yard | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 yard | det |
| 21 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 yard | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 grave | punct |
| 23 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 followed | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 seized | punct |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 seized | aux:pass |
| 26 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 had | conj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 passion | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 passion | det |
| 29 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 seized | obl |
| 30 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 31 any | case |
| 31 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 seized | obl |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 witnessed | obj |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 witnessed | nsubj |
| 34 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 witnessed | aux |
| 35 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 36 witnessed | advmod |
| 36 | witnessed | witness | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 any | acl:relcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | I | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | utter speech: other | past | I not said here | this words | than Amina; soon property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | |||
| 3 | understand | past | this words | instantly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | follow | past · perfect · passive | I | to the grave yard | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme she=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | seize | past · passive | I not said here | with a passion; beyond any | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 6 | witness | present · perfect | I | ever | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary |
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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