The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 10
Indeed, he raised his hand to strike him a second time, when the Barmecide cried out that he was mad, upon which my brother controlled himself, and apologised and protested that it was all the fault of the wine he had drunk.
Who acts: Barmecide, brother, hand · What happens: raise, strike, cry out, be, control, apologise · To what, where: hand, Barmecide, fault, wine · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Barmecide, brother, hand), 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 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 raised | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Indeed | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 raised | nsubj |
| 4 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hand | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 raised | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 strike | mark |
| 8 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 raised | advcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 strike | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 11 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 time | amod |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 strike | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cried | punct |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 cried | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Barmecide | det |
| 16 | Barmecide | Barmecide | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 cried | nsubj |
| 17 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 raised | conj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 cried | compound:prt |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 mad | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 mad | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 mad | cop |
| 22 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 cried | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 controlled | punct |
| 24 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 which | case |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 controlled | obl |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 brother | nmod:poss |
| 27 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 controlled | nsubj |
| 28 | controlled | control | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 mad | conj |
| 29 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 28 controlled | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 apologised | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 apologised | cc |
| 32 | apologised | apologise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 raised | parataxis |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 protested | cc |
| 34 | protested | protest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 apologised | conj |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 fault | mark |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 fault | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 fault | cop |
| 38 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 fault | det:predet |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 fault | det |
| 40 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 protested | ccomp |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 wine | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 wine | det |
| 43 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 fault | nmod |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 drunk | nsubj |
| 45 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 drunk | aux |
| 46 | drunk | drink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 43 wine | acl:relcl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | Barmecide | Barmecide's hand | indeed property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | |||
| 2 | strike | to-infinitive | Barmecide not said here | Barmecide | time | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument | |||
| 3 | cry out speech: express | past | the Barmecide | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | Barmecide | mad property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | control | past | my brother | Barmecide | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||||
| 6 | apologise speech: apologize | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | protest speech: disagree | past | vn rebel-71.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | is a | past | hand | all fault | of the wine | tree rules | |||
| 9 | drink | past · perfect | Barmecide | the wine not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=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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