The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 97
It was owing to you that my brothers became black stones.
Who acts: Tree, brothers · What happens: owe, become · To what, where: you, black stones
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 (Tree, brothers), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 owing | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 owing | aux |
| 3 | owing | owe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 owing | obl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 became | mark |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 8 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 became | nsubj |
| 9 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 owing | advcl |
| 10 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stones | amod |
| 11 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 became | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 owing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | owe | past · progressive | Tree | you | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to you=Goal | ||||
| 2 | become | past | my brothers | black stones | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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