The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 59
This counsel was very distasteful to me, but I thought I could not do otherwise than adopt it.
Who acts: counsel, I · What happens: be, think, not do, adopt · To what, where: me, counsel · 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 (counsel, 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 counsel | det |
| 2 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 distasteful | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 distasteful | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 distasteful | advmod |
| 5 | distasteful | distasteful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 distasteful | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 thought | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | nsubj |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 distasteful | parataxis |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 do | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 do | advmod |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 thought | ccomp |
| 16 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 15 do | advmod |
| 17 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 18 adopt | mark |
| 18 | adopt | adopt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 do | advcl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 adopt | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 distasteful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this counsel | me | distasteful property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not do | could | I | otherwise property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | adopt | infinitive | I not said here | counsel | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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