The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 70
Like myself, you have always thought this house that our father built for us was perfect in every respect, but only to-day I have learned that three things are still lacking to complete it.
Who acts: you, house, I, three things · What happens: think, build, be, learn, lack, complete · To what, where: house, father, respect
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, house, I, three things), 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 2 myself | case |
| 2 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 thought | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 myself | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 thought | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 thought | aux |
| 6 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 thought | advmod |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thought | obj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 perfect | nsubj |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 perfect | nsubj |
| 13 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 father | acl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 us | case |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 built | obl |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 perfect | cop |
| 17 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 house | acl:relcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 respect | case |
| 19 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 respect | det |
| 20 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 perfect | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 learned | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 learned | cc |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 day | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 day | case |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 to | punct |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 learned | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 learned | nsubj |
| 28 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 learned | aux |
| 29 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 thought | conj |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 lacking | mark |
| 31 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 things | nummod |
| 32 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 lacking | nsubj |
| 33 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 lacking | aux |
| 34 | still | still | ADV | _ | 35 lacking | advmod |
| 35 | lacking | lack | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 learned | advcl |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 complete | mark |
| 37 | complete | complete | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 lacking | xcomp |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 complete | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present · perfect | you | this house | like myself; always property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot house=Theme | |||
| 2 | build | participle | our father not said here | for us | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for we=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | is | past | this house | every respect | perfect property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | learn | present · perfect | I | day | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | lack | present · progressive | three things | still | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | complete | to-infinitive | three things not said here | house | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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