The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 4
As for the Sultan, he was quite inconsolable, and his subjects, who had dearly loved the princess, shared his grief.
Who acts: monkey, subjects · What happens: be, love, share · To what, where: subjects, grief
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monkey, subjects), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 Sultan | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Sultan | det |
| 4 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 inconsolable | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Sultan | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 inconsolable | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 inconsolable | cop |
| 8 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 9 inconsolable | advmod |
| 9 | inconsolable | inconsolable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 shared | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 shared | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 subjects | nmod:poss |
| 13 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 shared | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 loved | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 loved | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 loved | aux |
| 17 | dearly | dearly | ADV | _ | 18 loved | advmod |
| 18 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 subjects | acl:relcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 princess | det |
| 20 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 loved | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 subjects | punct |
| 22 | shared | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 inconsolable | conj |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 grief | nmod:poss |
| 24 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shared | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 inconsolable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | monkey | as the Sultan; inconsolable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | love | past · perfect · passive | monkey's subjects | dearly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | share | past | monkey's subjects | monkey's grief | 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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