The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 80
The prince was so much overcome by these words that he remained silent for some time.
Who acts: words, prince · What happens: overcome, remain · To what, where: prince, words
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 (words, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 overcome | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 overcome | aux:pass |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 overcome | advmod |
| 6 | overcome | overcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 words | case |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 words | det |
| 9 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 overcome | obl |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 remained | obj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 remained | nsubj |
| 12 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 words | acl:relcl |
| 13 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 remained | xcomp |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 time | det |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 remained | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 overcome | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overcome | past · passive | this words | the prince | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | remain | past | prince | this words | time | silent property | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=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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