The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 89
I married my cousin, whom I loved tenderly, and I thought she loved me too.
Who acts: I, story · What happens: marry, love, think · To what, where: cousin, me · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, story), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 married | nsubj |
| 2 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 4 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 married | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 loved | punct |
| 6 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 loved | obj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 loved | nsubj |
| 8 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cousin | acl:relcl |
| 9 | tenderly | tenderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 loved | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 thought | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 thought | nsubj |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 married | conj |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 loved | nsubj |
| 15 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 thought | ccomp |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 loved | obj |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 loved | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past | I | my cousin | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cousin=Patient | ||||
| 2 | love | past | I | my cousin | tenderly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | love | past | story | me | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
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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