The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 91
He cherished an undying hatred towards me, and lost no occasion of showing it.
Who acts: bird, occasion · What happens: cherish, lose, show · To what, where: undying hatred, occasion
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 (bird, occasion), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 cherished | nsubj |
| 2 | cherished | cherish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hatred | det |
| 4 | undying | undying | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hatred | amod |
| 5 | hatred | hatred | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cherished | obj |
| 6 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 cherished | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lost | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lost | cc |
| 10 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cherished | conj |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 occasion | det |
| 12 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lost | obj |
| 13 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 14 showing | mark |
| 14 | showing | show | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 occasion | acl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 showing | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cherished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cherish | past | bird | a undying hatred | towards me | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hatred=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | lose | past | bird not said here | no occasion | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent occasion=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | show | gerund | no occasion not said here | occasion | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
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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