The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 18
A good man had a beautiful wife, whom he loved passionately, and never left if possible.
Who acts: good man, man · What happens: have, love, not leave · To what, where: beautiful wife
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 (good man, man), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wife | det |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wife | amod |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 loved | punct |
| 9 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 loved | obj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 loved | nsubj |
| 11 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wife | acl:relcl |
| 12 | passionately | passionately | ADV | _ | 11 loved | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 left | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 left | cc |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 left | advmod |
| 16 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 had | conj |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 possible | mark |
| 18 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 left | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | a good man | a beautiful wife | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient | ||||
| 2 | love | past | man | a beautiful wife | passionately property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | not leave | participle | a good man not said here | possible property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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