The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 68
Overcome with gratitude at my deliverance, I flung myself at her feet, and kissed the hem of her garment. "
Who acts: you, I, my · What happens: overcome, fling, kiss, deliver · To what, where: deliverance, myself, feet, hem
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 (you, I, my), 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 | Overcome | overcome | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 gratitude | case |
| 3 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Overcome | obl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 deliverance | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 deliverance | nmod:poss |
| 6 | deliverance | deliverance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Overcome | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 flung | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 flung | nsubj |
| 9 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Overcome | parataxis |
| 10 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 flung | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 feet | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 feet | nmod:poss |
| 13 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 flung | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 kissed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 kissed | cc |
| 16 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 flung | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hem | det |
| 18 | hem | hem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 kissed | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 garment | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 garment | nmod:poss |
| 21 | garment | garment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hem | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Overcome | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Overcome | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overcome | imperative | you not said here | my deliverance | with gratitude | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||
| 2 | fling | past | I | myself | spell's feet | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent myself=Theme at foot=Destination | |||
| 3 | kiss | past | I not said here | the hem of spell's garment | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hem=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | deliver | my | nom deliverance «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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