The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 5
For seven days the whole nation mourned, and then the ashes of the princess were buried with great pomp, and a superb tomb was raised over her.
Who acts: whole nation · What happens: mourn, bury, raise · To what, where: ashes, superb tomb
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 (whole nation), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:935): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 mourned | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 nation | det |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 nation | amod |
| 6 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mourned | nsubj |
| 7 | mourned | mourn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 buried | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 buried | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 buried | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ashes | det |
| 12 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 buried | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 princess | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 princess | det |
| 15 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ashes | nmod |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 buried | aux:pass |
| 17 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 mourned | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 pomp | case |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 pomp | amod |
| 20 | pomp | pomp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 buried | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 raised | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 raised | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 tomb | det |
| 24 | superb | superb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 tomb | amod |
| 25 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 raised | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 raised | aux:pass |
| 27 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 mourned | conj |
| 28 | over | over | ADP | _ | 29 her | case |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 raised | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 mourned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mourn | past | the whole nation | day | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | bury | past · passive | the ashes of the princess | then | with great pomp | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | raise | past · passive | a superb tomb | over princess | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme over she=Destination |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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