The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 83

Next day, when we were at dinner, I could maintain my patience no longer, and implored the princess to break her bonds, and return with me to the world which was lighted by the sun.

Who acts: we, I, sun., feast · What happens: be, maintain, implore, break, return, light · To what, where: dinner, patience, princess, bonds, world

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 (we, I, sun., feast), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 day	amod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 maintain	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dinner	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 dinner	advmod
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 dinner	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dinner	cop
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 dinner	case
8	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 day	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 maintain	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 maintain	aux
12	maintain	maintain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 patience	nmod:poss
14	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 maintain	obj
15	no	no	ADV	_	16 longer	advmod
16	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 maintain	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 implored	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 implored	cc
19	implored	implore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 maintain	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 princess	det
21	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 implored	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 break	mark
23	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 implored	advcl
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 bonds	nmod:poss
25	bonds	bond	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 break	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 return	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 return	cc
28	return	return	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 maintain	parataxis
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 me	case
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 return	obl
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 world	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 world	det
33	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 return	obl
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 lighted	nsubj:pass
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 lighted	aux:pass
36	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 world	acl:relcl
37	by	by	ADP	_	39 sun.	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 sun.	det
39	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 lighted	obl

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	we			dinner			tree rules
2	maintain	could	I	my patience			day	long property	vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent patience=Theme
3	implore	past	I not said here		the princess				vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient
4	break	to-infinitive	I not said here	feast's bonds					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bond=Patient
5	return	infinitive						with me; to the world result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to world=Result
6	light	past · passive	the sun.	the world					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product
7	bond		feast						nom bond «phenomenon 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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