The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 31
"Then the one who stands behind the throne answers: 'This king, so great and powerful, must die, must die, must die!'"
Who acts: one, throne · What happens: stand behind, answer, die · To what, where: king, one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, throne), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 die | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 one | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 one | det |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 die | obl |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 stands | nsubj |
| 6 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 one | acl:relcl |
| 7 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 10 answers | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 throne | det |
| 9 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answers | nsubj |
| 10 | answers | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 stands | ccomp |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 king | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 king | punct |
| 13 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answers | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 great | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 great | advmod |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 king | amod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 powerful | cc |
| 19 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 great | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 die | punct |
| 21 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 die | aux |
| 22 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 king | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 die | punct |
| 24 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 die | aux |
| 25 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 king | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
| 27 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 die | aux |
| 28 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 28 die | punct |
| 30 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 die | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand behind in a quote | present | the one | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert in a quote | present | the throne | this king | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | die in a quote | must | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 4 | die in a quote | must | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 5 | die in a quote | must | the one | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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