The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 22
All this time the grand-vizir was in a terrible state of anxiety.
Who acts: grand vizir · What happens: be · To what, where: terrible state
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 (grand vizir), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 time | det:predet |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 state | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 vizir | det |
| 5 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 vizir | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 grand | punct |
| 7 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 state | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 state | cop |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 state | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 state | det |
| 11 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 state | amod |
| 12 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 anxiety | case |
| 14 | anxiety | anxiety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 state | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 state | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the grand vizir | a terrible state | time | of anxiety | tree rules |
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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