The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 86
He went to the palace to demand an audience, and told his story to the Sultan, who only answered,
Who acts: Hunchback, Sultan · What happens: go, demand, tell, answer · To what, where: palace, audience, story, Sultan · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Sultan), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 palace | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 palace | det |
| 5 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 demand | mark |
| 7 | demand | demand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 went | advcl |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 audience | det |
| 9 | audience | audience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 demand | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 told | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 told | cc |
| 12 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 story | nmod:poss |
| 14 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 told | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Sultan | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Sultan | det |
| 17 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 told | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 answered | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 answered | nsubj |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 answered | advmod |
| 21 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 Sultan | acl:relcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Hunchback | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | demand speech: request | to-infinitive | Hunchback not said here | a audience | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme audience=Precondition | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Hunchback's story | the Sultan | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to sultan=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | past | the Sultan | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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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