The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 89
Alnaschar almost died of joy on receiving it.
Who acts: Alnaschar · What happens: die, receive · To what, where: joy
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 (Alnaschar), 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 | Alnaschar | Alnaschar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 died | nsubj |
| 2 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 3 died | advmod |
| 3 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 joy | case |
| 5 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 died | obl |
| 6 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 7 receiving | mark |
| 7 | receiving | receive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 died | advcl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 receiving | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | Alnaschar | of joy; almost property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of joy=Causer | ||||
| 2 | receive | gerund | Alnaschar not said here | joy | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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