The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 104
Ali Cogia was much troubled by this dream, as he was unwilling to give up his shop, and lose all his customers.
Who acts: dream, Merchant · What happens: trouble, unwill, give up, lose · To what, where: Ali, shop, customers
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 (dream, Merchant), 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 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 troubled | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | Cogia | Cogia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ali | flat |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 troubled | aux:pass |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 troubled | advmod |
| 5 | troubled | trouble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 dream | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 dream | det |
| 8 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 troubled | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 unwilling | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 unwilling | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 unwilling | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 unwilling | aux |
| 13 | unwilling | unwill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 troubled | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 give | mark |
| 15 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 unwilling | xcomp |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 give | compound:prt |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 shop | nmod:poss |
| 18 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 give | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lose | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 lose | cc |
| 21 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 troubled | conj |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 customers | det:predet |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 customers | nmod:poss |
| 24 | customers | customer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 lose | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 troubled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trouble | past · passive | this dream | Ali | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | unwill | past · progressive | Merchant | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | give up | to-infinitive | Merchant not said here | Merchant's shop | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shop=Source | ||||
| 4 | lose | infinitive | this dream not said here | Merchant's customers | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent customer=Eventuality |
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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