The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 31
He was always affectionate in his manner of treating me, and I shared his breakfast, dinner and supper, while, on my side, I gave him all the gratitude and attachment to which he had a right.
Who acts: dog, manner, I · What happens: be, treat, share, give, have · To what, where: manner, me, breakfast, side, gratitude, dog
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 (dog, manner, I), 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 | 4 affectionate | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 affectionate | cop |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 affectionate | advmod |
| 4 | affectionate | affectionate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 manner | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 manner | nmod:poss |
| 7 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 affectionate | obl |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 treating | mark |
| 9 | treating | treat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 manner | acl |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 treating | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shared | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 shared | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 shared | nsubj |
| 14 | shared | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 affectionate | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 breakfast | nmod:poss |
| 16 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shared | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dinner | punct |
| 18 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 breakfast | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 supper | cc |
| 20 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 breakfast | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 side | punct |
| 22 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 26 side | mark |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 side | punct |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 side | case |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 side | nmod:poss |
| 26 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shared | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 gave | punct |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 gave | nsubj |
| 29 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 affectionate | conj |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 gave | iobj |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 gratitude | det:predet |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 gratitude | det |
| 33 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 gave | obj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 attachment | cc |
| 35 | attachment | attachment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 gratitude | conj |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 which | case |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 had | obl |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 had | nsubj |
| 39 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 attachment | acl:relcl |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 right | det |
| 41 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 had | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 affectionate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | dog | dog's manner | affectionate, always property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | treat | gerund | dog's manner not said here | me | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | share | past | I | dog's breakfast and dinner and supper | my side | tree rules | |||
| 4 | give | past | I | all gratitude and attachment | dog | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient gratitude=Theme | |||
| 5 | have | past | dog | a right | to attachment | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient |
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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