The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 92
I soon found by watching that they were right, and when I mortally wounded a favourite slave of hers for a great crime, she begged that she might build a palace in the garden, where she wept and bewailed him for two years.
Who acts: I, changes, story · What happens: find, watch, be, wound, beg, build · To what, where: favourite slave, palace, garden, slave · 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, changes, 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 | 3 found | nsubj |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 found | advmod |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 5 watching | mark |
| 5 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 found | xcomp |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 right | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 right | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 right | cop |
| 9 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 watching | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 begged | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 begged | cc |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 wounded | advmod |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 wounded | nsubj |
| 14 | mortally | mortally | ADV | _ | 15 wounded | advmod |
| 15 | wounded | wound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 begged | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 slave | det |
| 17 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 slave | amod |
| 18 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wounded | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 hers | case |
| 20 | hers | her | PRON | Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 slave | nmod |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 crime | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 crime | det |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 crime | amod |
| 24 | crime | crime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wounded | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wounded | punct |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 begged | nsubj |
| 27 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | conj |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 build | mark |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 build | nsubj |
| 30 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 build | aux |
| 31 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 begged | ccomp |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 palace | det |
| 33 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 build | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 garden | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 garden | det |
| 36 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 build | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 wept | punct |
| 38 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 40 wept | advmod |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 wept | nsubj |
| 40 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 begged | conj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 bewailed | cc |
| 42 | bewailed | bewail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 wept | conj |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 bewailed | obj |
| 44 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 years | case |
| 45 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 46 years | nummod |
| 46 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 bewailed | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | I | soon property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | watch | gerund | I not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | changes = change | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wound | past | I | a favourite slave of story | for a great crime; mortally property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus slave=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | beg speech: request | past | story | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | build | might | story | a palace | the garden | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Product | |||
| 7 | weep | past | story | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | bewail | past | story not said here | slave | year | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=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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