The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 35
"No, madam," returned he, "I became blind through a most surprising adventure, such as probably has never happened to anybody.
Who acts: madam · What happens: return, become, not happen · To what, where: Calender, surprising adventure
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 (madam), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 madam | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 madam | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 returned | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 madam | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 returned | punct |
| 7 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 returned | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 became | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 became | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 became | nsubj |
| 12 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 returned | conj |
| 13 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 became | xcomp |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 adventure | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 adventure | det |
| 16 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 17 surprising | advmod |
| 17 | surprising | surprising | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 adventure | amod |
| 18 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 became | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 happened | punct |
| 20 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ | 25 happened | mark |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 such | fixed |
| 22 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 25 happened | advmod |
| 23 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 happened | aux |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 happened | advmod |
| 25 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 adventure | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 anybody | case |
| 27 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 25 happened | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | madam | Calender = calendar | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | become in a quote | past | madam | a surprising adventure | blind property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | not happen in a quote | present · perfect | madam not said here | to anybody; probably property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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