The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 47

The two sons who survived him loved each other tenderly, and it was a real grief to the elder, Schahriar, that the laws of the empire forbade him to share his dominions with his brother Schahzeman.

Who acts: two sons, kingdom, laws · What happens: survive, love, be, forbid, share · To what, where: race, each, real grief, dominions

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 (two sons, kingdom, laws), 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	3 sons	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 sons	nummod
3	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 loved	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 survived	nsubj
5	survived	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sons	acl:relcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 survived	obj
7	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 loved	obj
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tenderly	amod
10	tenderly	tenderly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 each	acl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 grief	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 grief	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 grief	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 grief	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 grief	det
16	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 grief	amod
17	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 loved	obl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 elder	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 elder	det
20	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 grief	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Schahriar	punct
22	Schahriar	Schahriar	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 elder	appos
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 forbade	punct
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 forbade	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 laws	det
26	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 forbade	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 empire	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 empire	det
29	empire	empire	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 laws	nmod
30	forbade	forbid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 loved	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 forbade	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 share	mark
33	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 forbade	xcomp
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 dominions	nmod:poss
35	dominions	dominion	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 share	obj
36	with	with	ADP	_	38 brother	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 brother	nmod:poss
38	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 share	obl
39	Schahzeman	Schahzeman	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 brother	appos
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 loved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	survive	past	the two sons	race		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Circumstance
2	love	past	the two sons	each		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus
3	is a	past	kingdom	a real grief	to the elder	tree rules
4	forbid	past	the laws of the empire	race		tree rules
5	share	to-infinitive	the laws of the empire not said here	race's dominions	with race's brother	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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