The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 103
We mingled our tears, for the loss of one was the loss of the other, and then I made up my mind that it was my duty to break the solemn oath I had sworn to the prince.
Who acts: We, I, grief, my · What happens: mingle, be, make up, break, swear, mind · To what, where: tears, mind, duty, solemn oath
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, I, grief, my), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 mingled | nsubj |
| 2 | mingled | mingle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 tears | nmod:poss |
| 4 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 mingled | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 loss | punct |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 loss | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 loss | det |
| 8 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mingled | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 loss | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 loss | nummod |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 loss | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 loss | det |
| 13 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 loss | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 other | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 other | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 loss | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 made | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 made | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 made | advmod |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 made | nsubj |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 mingled | conj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 made | compound:prt |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 mind | nmod:poss |
| 24 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | obj |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 duty | mark |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 duty | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 duty | cop |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 duty | nmod:poss |
| 29 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | ccomp |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 break | mark |
| 31 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 duty | acl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 oath | det |
| 33 | solemn | solemn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 oath | amod |
| 34 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 break | obj |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 sworn | nsubj |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 sworn | aux |
| 37 | sworn | swear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 oath | acl:relcl |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 prince | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 prince | det |
| 40 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 sworn | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 mingled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mingle | past | We | our tears | for the loss | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | of the one loss; of the other | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make up | past | I | my mind | then | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | |||
| 4 | is a | past | grief | my duty | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | break | to-infinitive | I not said here | the solemn oath | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oath=Patient | ||||
| 6 | swear | past · perfect | I | the solemn oath not said here | to the prince | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent oath=Eventuality | |||
| 7 | mind | my | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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