The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 70
Prince Camaralzaman was brought up with extreme care by an excellent governor and all the cleverest teachers, and he did such credit to them that when he was grown up, a more charming and accomplished young man was not to be found.
Who acts: excellent governor, prince · What happens: bring up, do, grow up, accomplish, not find · To what, where: Camaralzaman, such credit, prince, young man
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 (excellent governor, prince), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Camaralzaman | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Camaralzaman | Camaralzaman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | aux:pass |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 brought | compound:prt |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 care | case |
| 7 | extreme | extreme | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 care | amod |
| 8 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | obl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 governor | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 governor | det |
| 11 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 governor | amod |
| 12 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 teachers | cc |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 teachers | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 teachers | det |
| 16 | cleverest | clever | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 teachers | amod |
| 17 | teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 governor | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 did | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 did | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 did | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | conj |
| 22 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 credit | amod |
| 23 | credit | credit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 did | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 did | obl |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 grown | mark |
| 27 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 grown | advmod |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 grown | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 grown | aux:pass |
| 30 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 did | advcl |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 grown | compound:prt |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 charming | punct |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 charming | det |
| 34 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 35 charming | advmod |
| 35 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 grown | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 accomplished | cc |
| 37 | accomplished | accomplish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 grown | conj |
| 38 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 man | amod |
| 39 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 found | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 found | aux:pass |
| 41 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 found | advmod |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 found | mark |
| 43 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 found | aux:pass |
| 44 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 accomplished | parataxis |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring up | past · passive | a excellent governor and all cleverest teachers | Camaralzaman Prince | with extreme care | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent subject=Patient with care=Instrument | |||
| 2 | do | past | prince | such credit | Camaralzaman | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent credit=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | grow up | past · passive | prince | a charming obl | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | accomplish | past | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | not find | past · passive | young man | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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