The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 90
The vizir took back this news to Scheherazade, who received it as if it had been the most pleasant thing in the world.
Who acts: vizir, news · What happens: take back, receive, be · To what, where: news, Scheherazade, world
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, news), 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 | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 news | det |
| 6 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Scheherazade | case |
| 8 | Scheherazade | Scheherazade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 received | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 received | nsubj |
| 11 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 received | obj |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 21 thing | case |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 as | fixed |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 thing | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 thing | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 thing | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 thing | det |
| 19 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 20 pleasant | advmod |
| 20 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 thing | amod |
| 21 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 received | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 world | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 world | det |
| 24 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 thing | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take back | past | the vizir | this news | Scheherazade | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent news=Theme to scheherazade=Destination | |||
| 2 | receive | past | news | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past · perfect | news | the world | as the pleasant thing | 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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