The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 46
My delight at the prospect of mixing once more with human beings was somewhat damped at the thought of the miserable object I must seem.
Who acts: I, My · What happens: damp, seem, delight, prospect, think · To what, where: delight, thought, miserable object, prospect, mixing
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, 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 delight | nmod:poss |
| 2 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 damped | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 prospect | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prospect | det |
| 5 | prospect | prospect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 delight | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 mixing | case |
| 7 | mixing | mixing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prospect | nmod |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 more | advmod |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 delight | advmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 beings | case |
| 11 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 beings | amod |
| 12 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 delight | nmod |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 damped | aux:pass |
| 14 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 15 damped | advmod |
| 15 | damped | damp | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 thought | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 thought | det |
| 18 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 damped | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 object | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 object | det |
| 21 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 object | amod |
| 22 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 thought | nmod |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 seem | nsubj |
| 24 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 seem | aux |
| 25 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 object | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 damped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | damp | past · passive | My delight at the prospect of mixing with human beings | the thought of the miserable object | somewhat property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | seem | must | I | the miserable object not said here | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme object=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | delight | My | the prospect of mixing | with human beings | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent at=place with=obl | ||||
| 4 | prospect | mixing | nom prospect «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | think | the miserable object | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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