The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 95
He then visited the prince's mother, and after telling her of his disappointment and of the further respite he had given his son, he added: "I know that Camaralzaman confides more in you than he does in me.
Who acts: son, Camaralzaman · What happens: visit, tell, give, add, know, confide · To what, where: mother, assemblage, son, more · 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 (son, Camaralzaman), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 visited | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 visited | advmod |
| 3 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 prince | case |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 visited | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 added | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 added | cc |
| 10 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 11 telling | mark |
| 11 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 added | advcl |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 telling | iobj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 disappointment | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 disappointment | nmod:poss |
| 15 | disappointment | disappointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 telling | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 respite | cc |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 respite | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 respite | det |
| 19 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 respite | amod |
| 20 | respite | respite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 disappointment | conj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 given | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 given | aux |
| 23 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 respite | advcl |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 son | nmod:poss |
| 25 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 given | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 telling | punct |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 added | nsubj |
| 28 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 visited | conj |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 32 know | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 know | punct |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 know | nsubj |
| 32 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 added | ccomp |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 confides | mark |
| 34 | Camaralzaman | Camaralzaman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 confides | nsubj |
| 35 | confides | confide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 know | ccomp |
| 36 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 35 confides | obj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 you | case |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 confides | obl |
| 39 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 41 does | mark |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 does | nsubj |
| 41 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 confides | advcl |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 me | case |
| 43 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 does | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 visited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | past | son | the prince's mother | then | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | gerund | son not said here | assemblage | of son's disappointment and the further respite | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||
| 3 | give | past · perfect · passive | son | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient son=Theme | |||||
| 4 | add speech: assert | past | son | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | know in a quote | present | son | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | confide speech: other in a quote | present | Camaralzaman | more | in you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic | |||
| 7 | do in a quote | present | son | in son | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | disappoint | son | nom disappointment «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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