The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 42
But for the moment I was safe, for, as I imagined, the robbers were all engaged in quarrelling over their booty.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, imagine, engage · To what, where: robbers, quarrelling
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 (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 | _ | 7 safe | cc |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 safe | obl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 safe | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 safe | cop |
| 7 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 imagined | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 imagined | mark |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 imagined | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 imagined | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 imagined | nsubj |
| 13 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 safe | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 engaged | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 robbers | det |
| 16 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 engaged | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 engaged | aux:pass |
| 18 | all | all | ADV | _ | 19 engaged | advmod |
| 19 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 imagined | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 quarrelling | case |
| 21 | quarrelling | quarrelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 engaged | obl |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 booty | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 booty | nmod:poss |
| 24 | booty | booty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 quarrelling | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 safe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | moment | safe property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | imagine | past | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | engage | past · passive | the robbers | in quarrelling over robbers's booty goal; all property | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme in quarrelling=Goal |
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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