The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 3
The only matter he could not settle satisfactorily was the safe custody of a thousand pieces of gold which he wished to leave behind him.
Who acts: he, only matter, safe custody · What happens: not settle, be, wish, leave · To what, where: only matter, safe custody
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, only matter, safe custody), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 matter | det |
| 2 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 matter | amod |
| 3 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 custody | nsubj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 settle | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 settle | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 settle | advmod |
| 7 | settle | settle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 matter | acl:relcl |
| 8 | satisfactorily | satisfactorily | ADV | _ | 7 settle | advmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 custody | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 custody | det |
| 11 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 custody | amod |
| 12 | custody | custody | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 pieces | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 thousand | det |
| 15 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 pieces | nummod |
| 16 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 custody | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 gold | case |
| 18 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pieces | nmod |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 wished | nsubj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 wished | nsubj |
| 21 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 custody | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 leave | mark |
| 23 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 wished | xcomp |
| 24 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 leave | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 custody | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not settle | could | he | the only matter not said here | satisfactorily property | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme matter=Location | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the only matter | the safe custody | of thousand pieces of gold | tree rules | |||
| 3 | wish | past | the safe custody | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | leave not said to happen | to-infinitive | the safe custody not said here | behind him = he | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent behind he=Location |
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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