The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 26
He was put to death by the Caliph in a very cruel way, nobody ever knew why.
Who acts: Caliph, nobody · What happens: put, know · To what, where: Vizir, cruel way
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 (Caliph, nobody), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | aux:pass |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 death | case |
| 5 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 Caliph | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Caliph | det |
| 8 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 way | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 way | det |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 cruel | advmod |
| 12 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 way | amod |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 knew | punct |
| 15 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 knew | nsubj |
| 16 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 17 knew | advmod |
| 17 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 18 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 knew | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past · passive | the Caliph | Vizir | a cruel way | to death | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in way=Destination | ||
| 2 | know | past | nobody | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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