The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 92
Having once got me in his power I felt he could show no mercy, and I was right.
Who acts: Having, I, bird · What happens: have, get, feel, show, be · To what, where: me, power, mercy
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 (Having, I, bird), 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 | Having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 got | csubj |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 1 Having | advmod |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 got | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 power | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 power | nmod:poss |
| 7 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 felt | nsubj |
| 9 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 power | acl:relcl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 show | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 show | aux |
| 12 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 felt | ccomp |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 mercy | det |
| 14 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 show | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 right | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 right | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 right | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 right | cop |
| 19 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 got | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | once property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | get | past | Having | me | bird's power | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | feel | past | I | bird's power not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | show | could | bird | no mercy | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mercy=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | is | past | I | right 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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