The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 88

Now this rebel vizir had hated me from my boy-hood, because once, when shooting at a bird with a bow, I had shot out his eye by accident.

Who acts: rebel vizir, accident · What happens: hate, shoot, shoot out · To what, where: me, boy hood, I

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 (rebel vizir, accident), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 vizir	advmod
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 vizir	det
3	rebel	rebel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 vizir	compound
4	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hated	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hated	aux
6	hated	hate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 hated	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	12 hood	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hood	nmod:poss
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hood	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 boy	punct
12	hood	hood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hated	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 once	punct
14	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	15 once	case
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 hated	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 shooting	punct
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 shooting	advmod
18	shooting	shoot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 hated	conj
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 bird	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 bird	det
21	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shooting	obl
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 bow	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bow	det
24	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shooting	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 shot	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 shot	nsubj:pass
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 shot	aux
28	shot	shoot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 hated	conj
29	out	out	ADP	_	28 shot	compound:prt
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 eye	nmod:poss
31	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 shot	obj
32	by	by	ADP	_	33 accident	case
33	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 shot	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hate	past · perfect	this rebel vizir	me	my boy hood	once property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
2	shoot	gerund	this rebel vizir not said here			at a bird; with a bow	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at bird=Destination
3	shoot out	past · perfect · passive	accident	I			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Destination eye=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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