The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 118
The hope of being no longer poor made the fisherman give way.
Who acts: hope, fisherman · What happens: be, make, give · To what, where: fisherman, way
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hope, fisherman), 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 hope | det |
| 2 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 poor | case |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 poor | cop |
| 5 | no | no | ADV | _ | 6 longer | advmod |
| 6 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 poor | advmod |
| 7 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 hope | nmod |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fisherman | det |
| 10 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obj |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 made | xcomp |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | long, poor property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | past | the hope | the fisherman | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give | infinitive | the fisherman not said here | way | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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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