The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 77
Still his passion, which increased every moment, did not make him forget his duty.
Who acts: passion, Firouz · What happens: increase, not make, not forget · To what, where: Firouz, duty
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (passion, Firouz), 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 6 increased | advmod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 passion | nmod:poss |
| 3 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 increased | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 increased | punct |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 increased | nsubj |
| 6 | increased | increase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 moment | det |
| 8 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 increased | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 make | punct |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 make | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 make | advmod |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 increased | parataxis |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 make | obj |
| 14 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 make | xcomp |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 duty | nmod:poss |
| 16 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 forget | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 increased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | increase | past | Firouz's passion | still; moment | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not make | past · do-support | Firouz | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not forget | infinitive | Firouz not said here | Firouz's duty | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/38/77/