The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 72
Then the old man leading the hind threw himself at the monster's feet and said, "O Prince of the Genii, I beg of you to stay your fury and to listen to me.
Who acts: old man, your · What happens: lead, throw, say, beg, stay, listen · To what, where: hind, man, feet, fury, old man · 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 (old man, your), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 threw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 threw | nsubj |
| 5 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 man | acl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hind | det |
| 7 | hind | hind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 leading | obj |
| 8 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 threw | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 feet | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 monster | det |
| 12 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 feet | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 monster | case |
| 14 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 threw | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 threw | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Prince | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Prince | punct |
| 19 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Prince | compound |
| 20 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | ccomp |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Genii | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Genii | det |
| 23 | Genii | Genii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Prince | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 beg | punct |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 beg | nsubj |
| 26 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 threw | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 you | case |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 beg | obl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 stay | mark |
| 30 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 beg | xcomp |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 fury | nmod:poss |
| 32 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stay | obj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 listen | cc |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 listen | mark |
| 35 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 stay | conj |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 me | case |
| 37 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 listen | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | gerund | the old man not said here | the hind | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hind=Theme | ||||
| 2 | throw | past | the old man | man | the monster's feet | then | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at foot=Destination | ||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the old man not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | beg speech: request in a quote | present | the old man = man | of you | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | stay not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the old man = man not said here | your fury | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme fury=Location | ||||
| 6 | listen in a quote | to-infinitive | the old man = man not said here | the old man = man | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme | ||||
| 7 | infuriate in a quote | your | nom fury «feeling transitive»: poss=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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