The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 98
Before he could proceed further, he was stopped by the astonishment shown by the Barmecide. "
Who acts: lord, astonishment · What happens: proceed, stop, show · To what, where: lord, astonishment
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 (lord, astonishment), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 proceed | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 proceed | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 proceed | aux |
| 4 | proceed | proceed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 stopped | advcl |
| 5 | further | further | ADV | _ | 4 proceed | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 proceed | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 stopped | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 stopped | aux:pass |
| 9 | stopped | stop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 astonishment | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 astonishment | det |
| 12 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stopped | obl |
| 13 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 astonishment | acl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 Barmecide | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Barmecide | det |
| 16 | Barmecide | barmecide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shown | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 stopped | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | proceed | could | lord | further property | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stop | past · passive | the astonishment | lord | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | show | participle | the astonishment not said here | by the Barmecide | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP 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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