The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 36
However, excepting the usual speech, I omitted none of the common forms attending a royal audience.
Who acts: I, common forms · What happens: except, omit, attend · To what, where: usual speech, none, royal audience
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 (I, common forms), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 9 omitted | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | excepting | except | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 omitted | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 speech | det |
| 5 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 speech | amod |
| 6 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 excepting | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 excepting | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 omitted | nsubj |
| 9 | omitted | omit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 9 omitted | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 forms | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 forms | det |
| 13 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 forms | amod |
| 14 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 none | nmod |
| 15 | attending | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 forms | acl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 audience | det |
| 17 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 audience | amod |
| 18 | audience | audience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 attending | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 omitted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | except | gerund | I not said here | the usual speech | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | omit | past | I | none | however property | vn exclude-107.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Theme | |||
| 3 | attend | gerund | the common forms not said here | a royal audience | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme audience=Goal |
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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