The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 23
But he was much delighted when he saw the Sultan enter the council-chamber without giving the terrible command that he was expecting.
Who acts: vizir, Sultan, council chamber · What happens: be, see, enter, give, expect · To what, where: council chamber, terrible command · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (vizir, Sultan, council chamber), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 delighted | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 delighted | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 delighted | cop |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 delighted | advmod |
| 5 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 saw | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 delighted | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Sultan | det |
| 10 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 enter | nsubj |
| 11 | enter | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 saw | ccomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 chamber | det |
| 13 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 chamber | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 council | punct |
| 15 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 enter | obj |
| 16 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 17 giving | mark |
| 17 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 chamber | acl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 command | det |
| 19 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 command | amod |
| 20 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 giving | obj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 expecting | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 expecting | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 expecting | aux |
| 24 | expecting | expect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 giving | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | vizir | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | vizir | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | enter | present | the Sultan | the council chamber | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chamber=Destination | ||||
| 4 | give | gerund | the council chamber not said here | the terrible command | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Theme | ||||
| 5 | expect | past · progressive | vizir | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: 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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