The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 104
Schahriar consented to Scheherazade's petition and Dinarzade was sent for.
Who acts: Schahriar, Scheherazade · What happens: consent, send, petition · To what, where: Dinarzade
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Schahriar, Scheherazade), 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 | Schahriar | Schahriar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 consented | nsubj |
| 2 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 petition | case |
| 4 | Scheherazade | Scheherazade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 petition | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Scheherazade | case |
| 6 | petition | petition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 consented | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sent | cc |
| 8 | Dinarzade | Dinarzade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sent | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sent | aux:pass |
| 10 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 consented | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 sent | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 consented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consent | past | Schahriar | to Scheherazade's petition | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to petition=Theme | ||||
| 2 | send | past · passive | Dinarzade | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | petition | Scheherazade | nom petition «communication 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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