The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 105
He had shut his eyes for some time to the necessity of performing this pilgrimage, and tried to atone to his conscience by an extra number of good works, but the dream seemed to him a direct warning, and he resolved to put the journey off no longer.
Who acts: Merchant, necessity, dream · What happens: shut, perform, try, atone, seem, resolve · To what, where: eyes, pilgrimage, direct warning, Merchant, journey
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 (Merchant, necessity, dream), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 shut | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shut | aux |
| 3 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shut | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shut | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 necessity | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 necessity | det |
| 11 | necessity | necessity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 time | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 13 performing | mark |
| 13 | performing | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 necessity | acl |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 pilgrimage | det |
| 15 | pilgrimage | pilgrimage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 performing | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tried | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 tried | cc |
| 18 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shut | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 atone | mark |
| 20 | atone | atone | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 tried | xcomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 conscience | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 conscience | nmod:poss |
| 23 | conscience | conscience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 atone | obl |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 number | case |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 number | det |
| 26 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 number | amod |
| 27 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 atone | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 works | case |
| 29 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 works | amod |
| 30 | works | work | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 number | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 seemed | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 seemed | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 dream | det |
| 34 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 seemed | nsubj |
| 35 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 tried | conj |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 him | case |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 seemed | obl |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 warning | det |
| 39 | direct | direct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 warning | amod |
| 40 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 seemed | xcomp |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 resolved | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 resolved | cc |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 resolved | nsubj |
| 44 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 tried | conj |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 put | mark |
| 46 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 resolved | xcomp |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 journey | det |
| 48 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 put | obj |
| 49 | off | off | ADP | _ | 46 put | compound:prt |
| 50 | no | no | ADV | _ | 51 longer | advmod |
| 51 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 46 put | advmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut | past · perfect | Merchant | Merchant's eyes | time | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||
| 2 | perform | gerund | the necessity not said here | this pilgrimage | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pilgrimage=Theme | ||||
| 3 | try | past | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | atone not said to happen | to-infinitive | to Merchant's conscience; by a extra number of good works | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | seem | past | the dream | a direct warning | Merchant | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||
| 6 | resolve | past | Merchant | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | put off | to-infinitive | Merchant not said here | the journey | long property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent journey=Goal |
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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