The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 63
It was governed in former days by a king named Schahzaman, who, with good right, considered himself one of the most peaceful, prosperous, and fortunate monarchs on the earth.
Who acts: king · What happens: govern, name, consider · To what, where: whole, king, Schahzaman
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 (king), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 governed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 governed | aux:pass |
| 3 | governed | govern | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 days | case |
| 5 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 days | amod |
| 6 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 governed | obl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 king | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 governed | obl |
| 10 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 king | acl |
| 11 | Schahzaman | Schahzaman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 named | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 right | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 right | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 right | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 right | case |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 right | amod |
| 17 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Schahzaman | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 considered | punct |
| 19 | considered | consider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 governed | conj |
| 20 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 considered | obj |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 considered | xcomp |
| 22 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 27 prosperous | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 prosperous | det |
| 24 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 25 peaceful | advmod |
| 25 | peaceful | peaceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 prosperous | amod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 prosperous | punct |
| 27 | prosperous | prosperous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 one | acl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 monarchs | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 monarchs | cc |
| 30 | fortunate | fortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 monarchs | amod |
| 31 | monarchs | monarch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 governed | obl |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 earth | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 earth | det |
| 34 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 monarchs | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 governed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | govern | past · passive | a king | whole | day | fortunate monarchs on the earth obl | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||
| 2 | name | participle | a king not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | consider | past | a king not said here | Schahzaman | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute |
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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