The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 4
But, as he spoke, his anger melted into tears, and again I wept with him.
Who acts: uncle, anger, I · What happens: speak, melt, weep, anger · To what, where: tears · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (uncle, anger, I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 melted | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 But | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 spoke | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 spoke | nsubj |
| 5 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 melted | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 spoke | punct |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 anger | nmod:poss |
| 8 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 melted | nsubj |
| 9 | melted | melt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 tears | case |
| 11 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 melted | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wept | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wept | cc |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 wept | advmod |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 wept | nsubj |
| 16 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 melted | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 wept | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 melted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | uncle | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | melt | past | uncle's anger | tears | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into tear=Product | ||||
| 3 | weep | past | I | again | with uncle | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | anger | uncle | nom anger «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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