The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 84
Some pitied Alnaschar, others only laughed at him, but the vanity which had gone to his head had disappeared with his basket of glass, and he was loudly bewailing his folly when a lady, evidently a person of consideration, rode by on a mule.
Who acts: pitied Alnaschar, vanity · What happens: pity, laugh, go, disappear, bewail, ride · To what, where: head, folly, person
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 (pitied Alnaschar, vanity), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 Alnaschar | det |
| 2 | pitied | pity | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Alnaschar | amod |
| 3 | Alnaschar | Alnaschar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 laughed | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Alnaschar | punct |
| 5 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 laughed | nsubj |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 laughed | advmod |
| 7 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 laughed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 disappeared | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 disappeared | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 vanity | det |
| 13 | vanity | vanity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 disappeared | nsubj |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 gone | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 gone | aux |
| 16 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 vanity | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 head | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 head | nmod:poss |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gone | obl |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 disappeared | aux |
| 21 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 laughed | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 basket | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 basket | nmod:poss |
| 24 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 disappeared | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 glass | case |
| 26 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 basket | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 bewailing | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 bewailing | cc |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 bewailing | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 bewailing | aux |
| 31 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 32 bewailing | advmod |
| 32 | bewailing | bewail | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 disappeared | advcl |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 folly | nmod:poss |
| 34 | folly | folly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 bewailing | obj |
| 35 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 bewailing | advmod |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 lady | det |
| 37 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 when | nsubj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 person | punct |
| 39 | evidently | evidently | ADV | _ | 41 person | advmod |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 person | det |
| 41 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 lady | appos |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 consideration | case |
| 43 | consideration | consideration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 person | nmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 rode | punct |
| 45 | rode | ride | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 person | acl |
| 46 | by | by | ADP | _ | 49 mule | case |
| 47 | on | on | ADP | _ | 49 mule | case |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 mule | det |
| 49 | mule | mule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 rode | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pity | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | laugh | past | some pitied Alnaschar | at herald | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go | past · perfect | the vanity | herald's head | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to head=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | disappear | past · perfect | the vanity | with herald's basket of glass | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | bewail | past · progressive | vanity | herald's folly | loudly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer folly=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | ride | participle | a person of consideration not said here | by a mule | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent 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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