The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 26
His voice and manner were so terrific that Alnaschar had not strength to reply, and allowed his gold to be taken from him, and even sabre cuts to be inflicted on him without making any resistance.
Who acts: voice, Alnaschar, gold · What happens: be, have, reply, allow, take, sabre · To what, where: strength, gold, cuts, resistance
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 (voice, Alnaschar, gold), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 voice | nmod:poss |
| 2 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 terrific | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 manner | cc |
| 4 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 voice | conj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 terrific | cop |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 terrific | advmod |
| 7 | terrific | terrific | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 had | mark |
| 9 | Alnaschar | Alnaschar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 terrific | advcl |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 strength | advmod |
| 12 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 reply | mark |
| 14 | reply | reply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 strength | acl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 allowed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 allowed | cc |
| 17 | allowed | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 terrific | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 gold | nmod:poss |
| 19 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 allowed | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 taken | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 taken | aux:pass |
| 22 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 allowed | xcomp |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 taken | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 sabre | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 sabre | cc |
| 27 | even | even | ADV | _ | 28 sabre | advmod |
| 28 | sabre | sabre | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 terrific | conj |
| 29 | cuts | cut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 sabre | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 inflicted | mark |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 inflicted | aux:pass |
| 32 | inflicted | inflict | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 sabre | advcl |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 him | case |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 inflicted | obl |
| 35 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 36 making | mark |
| 36 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 inflicted | advcl |
| 37 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 38 resistance | det |
| 38 | resistance | resistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 making | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 terrific | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | door's voice and manner | terrific property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Alnaschar | strength | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | to-infinitive | Alnaschar not said here | strength not said here | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | allow | past | door's voice and manner not said here | door's gold | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer gold=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | door's gold not said here | from door | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: from he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | sabre | present | door's voice and manner not said here | cuts | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | inflict | to-infinitive · passive | door's voice and manner not said here | on door | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | make | gerund | door's voice and manner not said here | any resistance | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset resistance=Product |
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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