The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 54
The very last time I saw him he seemed more delighted to see me than ever, and gave a great feast in my honour.
Who acts: I, cousin, my · What happens: see, seem, give, honour · To what, where: cousin, me, great feast, honour
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 (I, cousin, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 last | advmod |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seemed | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | acl:relcl |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | obj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 seemed | nsubj |
| 9 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 delighted | advmod |
| 11 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 seemed | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 see | mark |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 delighted | advcl |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 see | obj |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 ever | case |
| 16 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 see | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gave | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 gave | cc |
| 19 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 seemed | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 feast | det |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 feast | amod |
| 22 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gave | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 honour | case |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 honour | nmod:poss |
| 25 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gave | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | I | cousin | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | cousin | time | delighted property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | cousin not said here | me | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | give | past | cousin not said here | a great feast | my honour | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme | |||
| 5 | honour | my | nom honour «state 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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