The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 53
After hearing of such generosity the world will talk of nothing else.
What happens: hear, talk · To what, where: world
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: 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 hearing | mark |
| 2 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 talk | advcl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 generosity | case |
| 4 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 generosity | amod |
| 5 | generosity | generosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hearing | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 world | det |
| 7 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hearing | obj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 talk | aux |
| 9 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 nothing | case |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 talk | obl |
| 12 | else | else | ADV | _ | 11 nothing | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 talk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | the world | of such generosity | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | talk | future | of nothing | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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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