The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 25
During her voyage hither on an enchanted horse, a portion of its enchantment has by some means been communicated to her person, and it can only be dissipated by certain perfumes of which I possess the secret.
Who acts: portion, certain perfumes, I, princess · What happens: enchant, have, communicate, dissipate, possess, voyage · To what, where: some, person, portion, secret
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (portion, certain perfumes, I, princess), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 voyage | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 voyage | nmod:poss |
| 3 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 has | obl |
| 4 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 8 horse | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 horse | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 horse | det |
| 7 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 horse | amod |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 voyage | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 voyage | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 portion | det |
| 11 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 has | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 enchantment | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 enchantment | nmod:poss |
| 14 | enchantment | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 portion | nmod |
| 15 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 20 communicated | mark |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 communicated | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 communicated | aux:pass |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 communicated | aux:pass |
| 20 | communicated | communicate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 has | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 person | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 person | nmod:poss |
| 23 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 communicated | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 dissipated | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 dissipated | cc |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 dissipated | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 dissipated | aux |
| 28 | only | only | ADV | _ | 30 dissipated | advmod |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 dissipated | aux:pass |
| 30 | dissipated | dissipate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 has | conj |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 perfumes | case |
| 32 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 perfumes | amod |
| 33 | perfumes | perfume | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 dissipated | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 which | case |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 possess | obl |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 possess | nsubj |
| 37 | possess | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 perfumes | acl:relcl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 secret | det |
| 39 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 possess | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | have | present | a portion of portion's enchantment | during princess's voyage on a enchanted horse | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | communicate | present · passive | some | princess's person | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to person=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | dissipate | can · passive | certain perfumes | portion | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | possess | present | I | the secret | of certain perfumes | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot secret=Theme | |||
| 6 | voyage | princess | on a enchanted horse | nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=agent on=obl | |||||
| 7 | enchant | portion | nom enchantment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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