The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 77
The morning of the fortieth dawned, and the young man when he woke gave thanks in an outburst of joy that the danger was passed. "
Who acts: morning, man, young man · What happens: dawn, wake, give, pass · To what, where: thanks, outburst, danger
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 (morning, man, young man), 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 morning | det |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dawned | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 fortieth | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fortieth | det |
| 5 | fortieth | fortieth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 morning | nmod |
| 6 | dawned | dawn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gave | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gave | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | nsubj |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 woke | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 woke | nsubj |
| 14 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 gave | advcl |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dawned | conj |
| 16 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 outburst | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 outburst | det |
| 19 | outburst | outburst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 joy | case |
| 21 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 outburst | nmod |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 passed | obj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 danger | det |
| 24 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 passed | aux:pass |
| 26 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 outburst | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dawned | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 dawned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dawn | past | the morning of the fortieth | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wake | past | man | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | give | past | the young man | thanks | a outburst of joy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme | |||
| 4 | pass | past · passive | the danger | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient that=Theme |
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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