The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 89
This answer much distressed the king, who again confided his trouble to his vizir.
Who acts: answer, king · What happens: distress, confide, trouble · To what, where: trouble, vizir
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 (answer, 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 answer | det |
| 2 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 distressed | nsubj |
| 3 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 distressed | advmod |
| 4 | distressed | distress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 confided | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 confided | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 confided | nsubj |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 confided | advmod |
| 10 | confided | confide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 distressed | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 12 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 confided | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 vizir | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 vizir | nmod:poss |
| 15 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 confided | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 distressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | distress | past | this answer | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | confide speech: other | past | the king | king's trouble | king's vizir | again | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent trouble=Topic to vizir=Recipient | ||
| 3 | trouble | king | nom trouble «cognition 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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