The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 40
The Sultan of Kashgar listened with an air of pleasure which filled the tailor and his friends with hope. "
Who acts: Sultan, pleasure · What happens: listen, fill · To what, where: tailor
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 (Sultan, pleasure), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Sultan | det |
| 2 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 listened | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Kashgar | case |
| 4 | Kashgar | Kashgar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Sultan | nmod |
| 5 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 air | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 air | det |
| 8 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 listened | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 pleasure | case |
| 10 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 air | nmod |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 filled | nsubj |
| 12 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 pleasure | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tailor | det |
| 14 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 filled | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 friends | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 friends | nmod:poss |
| 17 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 tailor | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 hope | case |
| 19 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 friends | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 listened | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | the Sultan of Kashgar | with a air of pleasure | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fill | past | pleasure | the tailor and Sultan's friends with hope | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tailor=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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