The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 45

The Story of the Envious Man and of Him Who Was Envied

What happens: envy · To what, where: Envious Man

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Story	det
2	Story	Story	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 Man	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Man	det
5	Envious	envious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Man	amod
6	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Story	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Him	cc
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Him	case
9	Him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Man	conj
10	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 Envied	nsubj
11	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 Envied	aux:pass
12	Envied	envy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 Man	acl:relcl

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	envy	past · passive		the Envious Man					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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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