The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 40
Between the wine I have drunk, and the pleasure of seeing you, I should never find the way to my house.
Who acts: I, pleasure · What happens: drink, see, not find · To what, where: you, way
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 (I, pleasure), 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 | Between | between | ADP | _ | 3 wine | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wine | det |
| 3 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drunk | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 drunk | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 drunk | aux |
| 6 | drunk | drink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pleasure | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 pleasure | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pleasure | det |
| 10 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drunk | conj |
| 11 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 12 seeing | mark |
| 12 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 pleasure | acl |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 seeing | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 find | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 find | nsubj |
| 16 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 find | aux |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 find | advmod |
| 18 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 drunk | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 way | det |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 find | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 house | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 house | nmod:poss |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 find | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 drunk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | present · perfect | I | between the wine | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | the pleasure not said here | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not find | should | I | the way | to my house | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
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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