The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 79
For a long time no plan occurred to the two plotters that seemed in the least likely to meet with success, but at length the expected birth of an heir gave them the chance for which they had been hoping.
Who acts: plan, two plotters, expected birth, plotters · What happens: occur, seem, meet, expect, give, hope · To what, where: plotters, length
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 (plan, two plotters, expected birth, plotters), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 occurred | obl |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 plan | det |
| 6 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 occurred | nsubj |
| 7 | occurred | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 plotters | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 plotters | det |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 plotters | nummod |
| 11 | plotters | plotter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 occurred | obl |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 seemed | nsubj |
| 13 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 plotters | acl:relcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 likely | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 likely | det |
| 16 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 likely | advmod |
| 17 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 seemed | xcomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 meet | mark |
| 19 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 likely | xcomp |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 success | case |
| 21 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 meet | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 gave | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 gave | cc |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 length | case |
| 25 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 gave | obl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 birth | det |
| 27 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 birth | amod |
| 28 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 gave | nsubj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 heir | case |
| 30 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 heir | det |
| 31 | heir | heir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 birth | nmod |
| 32 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 occurred | conj |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 gave | obj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 chance | det |
| 35 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 gave | obj |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 which | case |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 hoping | obl |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 hoping | nsubj |
| 39 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 hoping | aux |
| 40 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 41 hoping | aux |
| 41 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 chance | acl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 occurred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occur | past | no plan | time | to the two plotters | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | seem | past | the two plotters | likely property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | meet | to-infinitive | the two plotters not said here | with success | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with success=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | expect | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | give | past | the expected birth of a heir | plotters = plotter | length | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent they=Recipient chance=Theme at length=Asset | |||
| 6 | hope | past · perfect · progressive | plotters = plotter | for the chance | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for which=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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