The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 105
No slave appeared, but my brother remarked that the Barmecide did not fail to rub his hands as if the water had been poured over them.
Who acts: slave, brother, Barmecide · What happens: appear, remark, not fail, rub, pour · To what, where: hands, water
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (slave, brother, Barmecide), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 slave | det |
| 2 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 appeared | nsubj |
| 3 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 remarked | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 remarked | cc |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 brother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 remarked | nsubj |
| 8 | remarked | remark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 appeared | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 fail | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Barmecide | det |
| 11 | Barmecide | Barmecide | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 fail | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 fail | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 fail | advmod |
| 14 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 remarked | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 rub | mark |
| 16 | rub | rub | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 fail | xcomp |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hands | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 rub | obj |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 poured | mark |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 poured | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 water | det |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 poured | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 poured | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 poured | aux:pass |
| 25 | poured | pour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 rub | advcl |
| 26 | over | over | ADP | _ | 27 them | case |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 poured | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | no slave | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | remark speech: assert | participle | my brother | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not fail | past · do-support | the Barmecide | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | rub | to-infinitive | the Barmecide not said here | Barmecide's hands | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 5 | pour | past · perfect · passive | the water | over brother | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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