The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 43
She bade me follow her to various shops, and when my basket was quite full we returned to this house, when you had the goodness to permit me to remain, for which I shall be eternally grateful.
Who acts: sister, basket, we, you, goodness, I · What happens: bade, follow, be, return, have, permit · To what, where: me, sister, various shops, goodness
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 (sister, basket, we, 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 bade | nsubj |
| 2 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 bade | obj |
| 4 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 bade | xcomp |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 follow | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 shops | case |
| 7 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 shops | amod |
| 8 | shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 follow | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 full | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 full | cc |
| 11 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 16 full | mark |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 basket | nmod:poss |
| 13 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 full | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 full | cop |
| 15 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 16 full | advmod |
| 16 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 bade | parataxis |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 returned | nsubj |
| 18 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 full | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 house | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 house | det |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 returned | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 had | punct |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 had | advmod |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 had | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bade | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 goodness | det |
| 27 | goodness | goodness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 had | obj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 permit | mark |
| 29 | permit | permit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 had | xcomp |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 permit | obj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 remain | mark |
| 32 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 permit | xcomp |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 grateful | punct |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 which | case |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 grateful | obl |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 grateful | nsubj |
| 37 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 grateful | aux |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 grateful | cop |
| 39 | eternally | eternally | ADV | _ | 40 grateful | advmod |
| 40 | grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 remain | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bade | past | sister | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | follow | infinitive | sister not said here | sister | various shops | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme to shop=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | is | past | my basket | full property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | return | past | we | to this house result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result | ||||
| 5 | have | past | you | the goodness | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | permit | to-infinitive | the goodness not said here | me | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | remain not said to happen | to-infinitive | the goodness not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | is | shall | I | eternally, grateful property | tree rules |
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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