The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 37
The sight of the money roused all the merchant's greed.
Who acts: money · What happens: rouse, sight · To what, where: greed, money
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 (money), 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 | 2 sight | det |
| 2 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 money | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 money | det |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sight | nmod |
| 6 | roused | rouse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 money | acl |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 greed | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 merchant | det |
| 9 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 greed | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 merchant | case |
| 11 | greed | greed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 roused | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rouse | participle | the money not said here | the merchant's greed | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greed=Patient | ||||
| 2 | sight | the money | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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