The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 78
For a long while I did nothing but weep, and would not suffer the genius to come near me; but time teaches us submission, and I have now got accustomed to his presence, and if clothes and jewels could content me, I have them in plenty.
Who acts: I, time, clothes · What happens: do, not suffer, come, teach, get, accustom · To what, where: nothing, genius, submission, us, me, clothes
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, time, clothes), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 long | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 long | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 suffer | advcl |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 did | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 did | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 long | advcl |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 did | obj |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 weep | cc |
| 9 | weep | weep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 nothing | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 suffer | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 suffer | cc |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 suffer | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 suffer | advmod |
| 14 | suffer | suffer | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 genius | det |
| 16 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 suffer | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 come | mark |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 genius | acl |
| 19 | near | near | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 come | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 teaches | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 teaches | cc |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 teaches | nsubj |
| 24 | teaches | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 suffer | advcl |
| 25 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 teaches | iobj |
| 26 | submission | submission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 teaches | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 got | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 got | cc |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 got | nsubj |
| 30 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 got | aux |
| 31 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 got | advmod |
| 32 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 teaches | conj |
| 33 | accustomed | accustom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 got | xcomp |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 presence | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 presence | nmod:poss |
| 36 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 accustomed | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 have | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 have | cc |
| 39 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 44 content | mark |
| 40 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 44 content | nsubj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 jewels | cc |
| 42 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 clothes | conj |
| 43 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 content | aux |
| 44 | content | content | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 48 have | advcl |
| 45 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 content | obj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 content | punct |
| 47 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 48 have | nsubj |
| 48 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 suffer | conj |
| 49 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 have | obj |
| 50 | in | in | ADP | _ | 51 plenty | case |
| 51 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 have | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 suffer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | I | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | not suffer | would | the genius | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer genius=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | come | to-infinitive | the genius not said here | near me | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near i=Location | ||||
| 4 | teach speech: other | present | time | submission | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient submission=Topic | |||
| 5 | get | present · perfect | I | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | accustom | participle | I not said here | to prince's presence | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | content a condition, not said to happen | could | clothes and jewels | me | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | ||||
| 8 | have | present | I | clothes | plenty | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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