The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 51
Of course it was not long before his reputation reached the ears of the man who envied him, and this wicked wretch resolved never to rest till he had in some way worked ill to the dervish whom he hated.
Who acts: course, reputation, man, wicked wretch, fame · What happens: not be, reach, envy, resolve, not rest, have · To what, where: ears, fame, dervish
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: who acts (course, reputation, man, wicked wretch), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 6 long | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 long | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 long | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 long | advmod |
| 6 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 reached | obl |
| 7 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 10 reached | mark |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 reputation | nmod:poss |
| 9 | reputation | reputation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | nsubj |
| 10 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ears | det |
| 12 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 reached | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 man | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ears | nmod |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 envied | nsubj |
| 17 | envied | envy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 man | acl:relcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 envied | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 resolved | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 resolved | cc |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 wretch | det |
| 22 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 wretch | amod |
| 23 | wretch | wretch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 resolved | nsubj |
| 24 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 reached | conj |
| 25 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 27 rest | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 rest | mark |
| 27 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 resolved | xcomp |
| 28 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 30 had | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 had | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 rest | advcl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 way | case |
| 32 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 33 way | det |
| 33 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 worked | obl |
| 34 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 had | ccomp |
| 35 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 worked | xcomp |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 dervish | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 dervish | det |
| 38 | dervish | dervish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 ill | obl |
| 39 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 hated | obj |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 hated | nsubj |
| 41 | hated | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 dervish | acl:relcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | course | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | fame's reputation | the ears of the man | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=Theme | ||||
| 3 | envy | past | the man | fame | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | resolve | past | this wicked wretch | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | not rest | to-infinitive | this wicked wretch not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | have | past | fame | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | work | past | fame not said here | in some way; ill property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in way=Theme | ||||
| 8 | hate | past | fame | the dervish | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus | ||||
| 9 | repute | fame | nom reputation «state 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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