The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 25
The vizir who accompanies the Caliph was also a real person of the great family of the Barmecides.
Who acts: vizir · What happens: accompany, be · To what, where: Caliph, real person
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 (vizir), 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 vizir | det |
| 2 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 person | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 accompanies | nsubj |
| 4 | accompanies | accompany | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 vizir | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Caliph | det |
| 6 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 accompanies | obj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 person | cop |
| 8 | also | also | ADV | _ | 11 person | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 person | det |
| 10 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 person | amod |
| 11 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 family | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 family | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 family | amod |
| 15 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 person | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Barmecides | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Barmecides | det |
| 18 | Barmecides | Barmecide | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 family | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 person | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accompany | present | the vizir | the Caliph | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caliph=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the vizir | a real person | of the great family of the Barmecides | tree rules |
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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