The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 89
Of course I not only sent a servant at once to offer him my regrets and apologies, but I made them in person.
Who acts: I, my · What happens: not send, offer, make, regret · To what, where: servant, regrets, bird
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, 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 | Of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 sent | mark |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 sent | advmod |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 sent | advmod |
| 6 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 servant | det |
| 8 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 once | case |
| 10 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 sent | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 offer | mark |
| 12 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sent | advcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 offer | obj |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 regrets | nmod:poss |
| 15 | regrets | regret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 offer | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 apologies | cc |
| 17 | apologies | apology | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 regrets | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 made | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 made | cc |
| 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 | 6 sent | acl:relcl |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 made | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 person | case |
| 24 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not send | participle | I | a servant | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme | ||||
| 2 | offer | to-infinitive | I not said here | my regrets and apologies | bird | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal regret=Theme | |||
| 3 | make | past | I | regrets = regret | in person | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product | |||
| 4 | regret | my | nom regret «feeling intransitive»: 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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