The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 77

At my father's desire I was married to a prince who was my own cousin; but on my very wedding day, I was snatched up by a genius, and brought here in a faint.

Who acts: prince, genius, father · What happens: marry, be, snatch up, bring, desire · To what, where: I, desire, own cousin, faint

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 (prince, genius, father), 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	At	at	ADP	_	5 desire	case
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 desire	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 father	case
5	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 married	obl
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 married	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 married	aux:pass
8	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 prince	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 prince	det
11	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 married	obl
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 cousin	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 cousin	cop
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 cousin	nmod:poss
15	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 cousin	amod
16	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 prince	acl:relcl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 snatched	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 snatched	cc
19	on	on	ADP	_	23 day	case
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 day	nmod:poss
21	very	very	ADV	_	23 day	advmod
22	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 day	compound
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 snatched	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 day	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 snatched	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 snatched	aux:pass
27	snatched	snatch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 married	conj
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 snatched	compound:prt
29	by	by	ADP	_	31 genius	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 genius	det
31	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 snatched	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 brought	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 brought	cc
34	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 married	conj
35	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 brought	advmod
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 faint	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 faint	det
38	faint	faint	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 brought	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 married	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	past · passive		I	my father's desire		to a prince	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to prince=Co-Patient
2	is a	past	a prince	my own cousin				tree rules
3	snatch up	past · passive	a genius	I		day		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
4	bring	past			a faint; here			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
5	desire		my father					nom desire «feeling transitive»: 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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