The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 15
The chief of police and the crowd of spectators were lost in astonishment at the strange events to which the death of the hunchback had given rise.
Who acts: hunchback · What happens: lose, give, die · To what, where: chief, astonishment, death
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hunchback), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 chief | det |
| 2 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 police | case |
| 4 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 chief | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 crowd | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 crowd | det |
| 7 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 police | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 spectators | case |
| 9 | spectators | spectator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 crowd | nmod |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 lost | aux:pass |
| 11 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 astonishment | case |
| 13 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lost | obl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 events | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 events | det |
| 16 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 events | amod |
| 17 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lost | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 given | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 death | det |
| 21 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 given | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 hunchback | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hunchback | det |
| 24 | hunchback | hunchback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 death | nmod |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 given | aux |
| 26 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 events | acl:relcl |
| 27 | rise | rise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 given | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past · passive | the chief of police and the crowd of spectators | astonishment | at the strange events | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | give | past · perfect · passive | the death of the hunchback | to the strange events | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient rise=Theme | ||||
| 3 | die | the hunchback | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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