The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 120
These changes have been wrought by our master's wife, who hated the mother and son."
Who acts: wife · What happens: wrought, hate · To what, where: changes, mother
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 changes | det |
| 2 | changes | change | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wrought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wrought | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 wrought | aux:pass |
| 5 | wrought | wrought | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 wife | case |
| 7 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 master | nmod:poss |
| 8 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 master | case |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wrought | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hated | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 hated | nsubj |
| 13 | hated | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 wife | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mother | det |
| 15 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hated | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 son | cc |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mother | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wrought | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wrought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrought | present · perfect · passive | our master's wife | this changes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hate | past | our master's wife | the mother and son | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus |
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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