The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 54
This behaviour caused the greatest horror in the town, where nothing was heard but cries and lamentations.
Who acts: behaviour · What happens: cause, hear · To what, where: greatest horror, town, nothing
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 (behaviour), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 behaviour | det |
| 2 | behaviour | behaviour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caused | nsubj |
| 3 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 horror | det |
| 5 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 horror | amod |
| 6 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caused | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 town | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 town | det |
| 9 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caused | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 heard | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 heard | advmod |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 heard | aux:pass |
| 14 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 town | acl:relcl |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 cries | cc |
| 16 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 heard | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lamentations | cc |
| 18 | lamentations | lamentation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 cries | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | past | this behaviour | the greatest horror | the town | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition horror=Patient | |||
| 2 | hear | past · passive | nothing | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
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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