The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 85
As the hunchback was one of the Sultan's private jesters, the chief of police resolved to defer sentence of death until he had consulted his master.
Who acts: Hunchback · What happens: be, resolve, defer, consult, sentence · To what, where: one, police, sentence, master, death
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hunchback), 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 | _ | 3 hunchback | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hunchback | det |
| 3 | hunchback | hunchback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 one | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 one | cop |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 jesters | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Sultan | det |
| 8 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 jesters | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Sultan | case |
| 10 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 jesters | amod |
| 11 | jesters | jester | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 one | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 chief | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 chief | det |
| 14 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 one | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 police | case |
| 16 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 chief | nmod |
| 17 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 police | acl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 defer | mark |
| 19 | defer | defer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 resolved | xcomp |
| 20 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 defer | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 death | case |
| 22 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sentence | nmod |
| 23 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 26 consulted | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 consulted | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 consulted | aux |
| 26 | consulted | consult | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 defer | advcl |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 master | nmod:poss |
| 28 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 consulted | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | one and the chief of police | as the hunchback; of the Sultan's private jesters | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | resolve | participle | police not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | defer | to-infinitive | sentence of death | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent sentence=Source | |||||
| 4 | consult | past · perfect | Hunchback | Hunchback's master | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sentence | death | nom sentence «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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