The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 28
But, if you will pardon my saying so, I was lost in astonishment at seeing such beautiful ladies by themselves.
Who acts: you · What happens: pardon, say, lose, see · To what, where: I, astonishment, such beautiful ladies · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:549): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 lost | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 But | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 pardon | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 pardon | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 pardon | aux |
| 6 | pardon | pardon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 lost | advcl |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 saying | nmod:poss |
| 8 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 pardon | obj |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 saying | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 pardon | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 lost | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 lost | aux:pass |
| 13 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 astonishment | case |
| 15 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lost | obl |
| 16 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 17 seeing | mark |
| 17 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 lost | advcl |
| 18 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ladies | amod |
| 19 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ladies | amod |
| 20 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 seeing | obj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 themselves | case |
| 22 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 seeing | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pardon a condition, not said to happen | future | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | lose | past · passive | I | astonishment | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | see | gerund | such beautiful ladies | by Ladies = lady | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lady=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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