The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 91
But the wine I had drunk had confused my brain; I gave one kick to the talisman, and it fell into a thousand pieces.
Who acts: I, talisman · What happens: drink, confuse, give, fall · To what, where: wine, one kick, talisman, thousand pieces
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, talisman), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 confused | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wine | det |
| 3 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 confused | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 drunk | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 drunk | aux |
| 6 | drunk | drink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 wine | acl:relcl |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 confused | aux |
| 8 | confused | confuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 brain | nmod:poss |
| 10 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 confused | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 gave | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | nsubj |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 confused | conj |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 kick | nummod |
| 15 | kick | kick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 talisman | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 talisman | det |
| 18 | talisman | talisman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fell | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fell | cc |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 fell | nsubj |
| 22 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 gave | conj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 pieces | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 thousand | det |
| 25 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 pieces | nummod |
| 26 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 fell | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 confused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | past · perfect | I | the wine not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient | ||||
| 2 | confuse | past · perfect · passive | the wine | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer brain=Result | |||||
| 3 | give | past | I | one kick | the talisman | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent kick=Theme to talisman=Recipient | |||
| 4 | fall | past | talisman | into thousand pieces result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into piece=Result |
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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