The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 30
I overheard you by chance, and was very pleased with the way you conducted it.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: overhear, be, conduct · To what, where: you, way
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 overheard | nsubj |
| 2 | overheard | overhear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 overheard | obj |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 chance | case |
| 5 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 overheard | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pleased | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 pleased | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 pleased | cop |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 pleased | advmod |
| 10 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 overheard | parataxis |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 way | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 way | det |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pleased | obl |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 conducted | nsubj |
| 15 | conducted | conduct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 way | acl:relcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 conducted | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 overheard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overhear | past | I | you | by chance | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | past | with the way; pleased property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | conduct | past | you | way | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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