The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 105
The eunuch is consumed by the flames, and the prince whom you have delivered has lost the sight of one eye."
Who acts: flames · What happens: consume, deliver, lose, sight · To what, where: eunuch, prince, one eye
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flames), 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 eunuch | det |
| 2 | eunuch | eunuch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 consumed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 consumed | aux:pass |
| 4 | consumed | consume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 flames | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 flames | det |
| 7 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 consumed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lost | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lost | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 prince | det |
| 11 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 delivered | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 delivered | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 delivered | aux |
| 15 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 prince | acl:relcl |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 lost | aux |
| 17 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 consumed | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sight | det |
| 19 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lost | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 eye | case |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 eye | nummod |
| 22 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sight | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 consumed | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 consumed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consume | present · passive | the flames | the eunuch | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Asset | ||||
| 2 | deliver | present · perfect · passive | the prince | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | lose | present · perfect · passive | the prince | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | sight | one eye | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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