The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 6
The tailor, who had been uneasy at my long absence, was, delighted to see me; but I kept silence about my adventure, and as soon as possible retired to my room to lament in secret over my folly.
Who acts: tailor, I, my · What happens: be, see, keep, retire, lament, absent · To what, where: long absence, me, silence, secret
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 (tailor, I, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:782): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 tailor | det |
| 2 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 delighted | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 uneasy | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 uneasy | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 uneasy | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 uneasy | cop |
| 7 | uneasy | uneasy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tailor | acl:relcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 absence | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 absence | nmod:poss |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 absence | amod |
| 11 | absence | absence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 uneasy | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 uneasy | punct |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 delighted | cop |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 delighted | punct |
| 15 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 delighted | xcomp |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 see | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 kept | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 kept | cc |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 kept | nsubj |
| 22 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 delighted | conj |
| 23 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 kept | obj |
| 24 | about | about | ADP | _ | 26 adventure | case |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 adventure | nmod:poss |
| 26 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 silence | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 retired | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 retired | cc |
| 29 | as | as | ADV | _ | 30 soon | advmod |
| 30 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 33 retired | advmod |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 possible | mark |
| 32 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 soon | advcl |
| 33 | retired | retire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 kept | conj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 room | case |
| 35 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 room | nmod:poss |
| 36 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 retired | obl |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 lament | mark |
| 38 | lament | lament | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 retired | advcl |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 secret | case |
| 40 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 lament | obl |
| 41 | over | over | ADP | _ | 43 folly | case |
| 42 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 folly | nmod:poss |
| 43 | folly | folly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 lament | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | the tailor | my long absence | uneasy property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | the tailor | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | the tailor not said here | me | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | keep | past | I | silence | about my adventure | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent silence=Theme about adventure=Location | |||
| 5 | retire | past | I not said here | to my room; soon property | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | lament | to-infinitive | I not said here | secret | over my folly | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 7 | absent | my | nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | adventure | my | nom adventure «act 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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