The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 39
The bishop was presently banished for being on the side of Prince Charlie's father, and had leisure to repent of being so solemn.
Who acts: leisure · What happens: banish, be, have, repent · To what, where: bishop, leisure
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 (leisure), 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 bishop | det |
| 2 | bishop | bishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 banished | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 banished | aux:pass |
| 4 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 5 banished | advmod |
| 5 | banished | banish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 side | case |
| 7 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 side | cop |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 side | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 side | det |
| 10 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 banished | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 father | case |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Charlie | compound |
| 13 | Charlie | Charlie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 father | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 Charlie | case |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 side | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 had | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 had | cc |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 banished | conj |
| 19 | leisure | leisure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 had | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 repent | mark |
| 21 | repent | repent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 had | xcomp |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 solemn | case |
| 23 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 solemn | cop |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 solemn | advmod |
| 25 | solemn | solemn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 repent | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 banished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | banish | past · passive | the bishop | presently property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | for the side; of Prince Charlie's father | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | past | leisure | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | repent | to-infinitive | leisure not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | is | gerund | solemn property | 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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