The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 94
She turned upon me in a rage, and said over me some magic words, and I instantly became as you see me now, half man and half marble.
Who acts: story, I, you · What happens: turn, say, become, see · To what, where: rage, magic words, 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 (story, I, you), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 turned | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 rage | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 rage | det |
| 7 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 said | obl |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 words | det |
| 14 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 words | amod |
| 15 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 said | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 became | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 became | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 became | nsubj |
| 19 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 20 became | advmod |
| 20 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 see | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 see | nsubj |
| 23 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 became | advcl |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 see | obj |
| 25 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 see | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 man | punct |
| 27 | half | half | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 28 man | amod |
| 28 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 see | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 marble | cc |
| 30 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 31 marble | compound |
| 31 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 man | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | story | a rage | upon me | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme upon i=Source in rage=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | story not said here | some magic words | over me | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | |||
| 3 | become | past | I | instantly property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | see | present | you | me | now | half man and half marble obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «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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