The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 23
It must have been brought from a great distance, or else, fond as I am of all curiosities, I could not have missed hearing of it!
Who acts: I, Tree · What happens: bring, be, not miss, hear · To what, where: Tree, hearing
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 44. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Tree), 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 | 5 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 brought | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 brought | aux:pass |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 distance | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 distance | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 distance | amod |
| 9 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fond | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 fond | cc |
| 12 | else | else | ADV | _ | 14 fond | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fond | punct |
| 14 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 brought | conj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 curiosities | case |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 curiosities | nsubj |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 curiosities | cop |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 curiosities | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 curiosities | det |
| 20 | curiosities | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fond | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 curiosities | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 missed | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 missed | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 missed | advmod |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 missed | aux |
| 26 | missed | miss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 fond | parataxis |
| 27 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 missed | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 hearing | nmod |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | must · perfect · passive | Tree | from a great distance | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from distance=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | is | present | I | as all curiosities | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not miss | could · perfect | I | hearing of Tree | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hearing=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | hear | Tree | nom hearing «act intransitive»: of=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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