The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 83
Hearing of his plight, I hurried after him to console him for his misfortunes, and to dress him in my best robe.
Who acts: I, Alnaschar · What happens: hear, hurry, console, dress, plight · To what, where: Alnaschar, best robe
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 (I, Alnaschar), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:1782): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 hurried | advcl |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 plight | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 plight | nmod:poss |
| 4 | plight | plight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hearing | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hearing | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 hurried | nsubj |
| 7 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hurried | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 console | mark |
| 11 | console | console | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 hurried | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 console | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 misfortunes | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 misfortunes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | misfortunes | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 console | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 dress | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 dress | cc |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 dress | mark |
| 19 | dress | dress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 console | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 dress | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 robe | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 robe | nmod:poss |
| 23 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 robe | amod |
| 24 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dress | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | I not said here | of Alnaschar's plight | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of plight=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hurry | past | I | after Alnaschar | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | console | to-infinitive | I not said here | Alnaschar | for Alnaschar's misfortunes | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | dress | to-infinitive | I not said here | Alnaschar | my best robe | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 5 | plight | Alnaschar | nom plight «state transitive»: poss=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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