The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 94
The Sultan ardently desired to see his son married at once, but he yielded to the vizir's arguments and decided to wait.
Who acts: Sultan, son, vizir · What happens: desire, see, marry, yield, decide, wait · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Sultan, son, vizir), 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 Sultan | det |
| 2 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 desired | nsubj |
| 3 | ardently | ardently | ADV | _ | 4 desired | advmod |
| 4 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 desired | xcomp |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 son | nmod:poss |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 married | nsubj |
| 9 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | ccomp |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 once | case |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 married | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 yielded | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 yielded | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 yielded | nsubj |
| 15 | yielded | yield | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 desired | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 arguments | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 vizir | det |
| 18 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 arguments | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 vizir | case |
| 20 | arguments | argument | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 yielded | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 decided | cc |
| 22 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 yielded | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 wait | mark |
| 24 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 decided | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 desired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desire | past | the Sultan | ardently property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Sultan not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | marry | past | Sultan's son | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | yield | past | son | to the vizir's arguments | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to argument=Theme | ||||
| 5 | decide | past | son not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | wait not said to happen | to-infinitive | son not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | argue | the vizir | nom argument «communication 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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