The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 86
Although confined in a cage, I was content with my lot, but if I must become a slave, I could not wish for a nobler mistress than one who has shown so much constancy, and from this moment I swear to serve you faithfully.
Who acts: I · What happens: confine, be, become, not wish, show, swear · To what, where: cage, slave, one, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | Although | although | SCONJ | _ | 2 confined | mark |
| 2 | confined | confine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 content | advcl |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 cage | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cage | det |
| 5 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 confined | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 confined | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 content | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 content | cop |
| 9 | content | content | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 lot | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 lot | nmod:poss |
| 12 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 content | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 wish | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 wish | cc |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 become | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 become | nsubj |
| 17 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 become | aux |
| 18 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 wish | advcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 slave | det |
| 20 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 become | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 become | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 wish | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 wish | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 wish | advmod |
| 25 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 content | parataxis |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 mistress | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 mistress | det |
| 28 | nobler | noble | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 mistress | amod |
| 29 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wish | obl |
| 30 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 34 shown | mark |
| 31 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 shown | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 shown | nsubj |
| 33 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 shown | aux |
| 34 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 wish | ccomp |
| 35 | so | so | ADV | _ | 36 much | advmod |
| 36 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 constancy | amod |
| 37 | constancy | constancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 shown | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 swear | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 swear | cc |
| 40 | from | from | ADP | _ | 42 moment | case |
| 41 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 42 moment | det |
| 42 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 swear | obl |
| 43 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 swear | nsubj |
| 44 | swear | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 content | conj |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 serve | mark |
| 46 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 swear | xcomp |
| 47 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 46 serve | obj |
| 48 | faithfully | faithfully | ADV | _ | 46 serve | advmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 content | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confine | participle | I not said here | a cage | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in cage=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is | past | I | with my lot; content property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | become a condition, not said to happen | must | I | a slave | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not wish | could | I | for a nobler mistress | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | show | present · perfect · passive | one | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient constancy=Topic | |||||
| 6 | swear | present | I | moment | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 7 | serve | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | faithfully property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Attribute |
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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