The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 71
Whilst he was still a youth the king, his father, who loved him dearly, had some thoughts of abdicating in his favour.
Who acts: man, father, thoughts · What happens: be, love, have, abdicate, favour · To what, where: youth, man, thoughts, favour
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 (man, father, thoughts), 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 | Whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 6 youth | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 youth | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 youth | cop |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 youth | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 youth | det |
| 6 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 had | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 youth | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 father | punct |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 king | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 loved | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 loved | nsubj |
| 14 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 father | acl:relcl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 loved | obj |
| 16 | dearly | dearly | ADV | _ | 14 loved | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 youth | punct |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 thoughts | det |
| 20 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 had | obj |
| 21 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 22 abdicating | mark |
| 22 | abdicating | abdicate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 thoughts | acl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 favour | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 favour | nmod:poss |
| 25 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 abdicating | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | man | a youth | still | tree rules | |||
| 2 | love | past | man's father | man | dearly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | have | past | some thoughts | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Patient | |||||
| 4 | abdicate | gerund | some thoughts not said here | man's favour | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | favour | man | nom favour «feeling transitive»: poss=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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