The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 4
The fisherman, who had never before possessed such a large sum of money at once, could hardly believe his good fortune.
Who acts: fisherman · What happens: possess, believe, sum · To what, where: fisherman, good fortune, money
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fisherman), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fisherman | det |
| 2 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 believe | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 possessed | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 possessed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 possessed | aux |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 before | advmod |
| 7 | before | before | ADV | _ | 8 possessed | advmod |
| 8 | possessed | possess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 fisherman | acl:relcl |
| 9 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 sum | det:predet |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sum | det |
| 11 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sum | amod |
| 12 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 possessed | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 money | case |
| 14 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sum | nmod |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 once | case |
| 16 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 possessed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 fisherman | punct |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 believe | aux |
| 19 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 20 believe | advmod |
| 20 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 22 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 fortune | amod |
| 23 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 believe | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | possess | past · perfect · passive | the fisherman | before property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | believe | could | the fisherman | fisherman's good fortune | hardly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fortune=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | sum | money | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=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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