The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 47
The Caliph's commandment fell upon me like a thunderbolt.
Who acts: commandment, Caliph · What happens: fall, command · 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 (commandment, Caliph), 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 Caliph | det |
| 2 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 commandment | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Caliph | case |
| 4 | commandment | commandment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | nsubj |
| 5 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 fell | obl |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 thunderbolt | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 thunderbolt | det |
| 10 | thunderbolt | thunderbolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the Caliph's commandment | upon me; like a thunderbolt | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon i=Location | ||||
| 2 | command | the Caliph | nom commandment «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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