The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 116
Here he found the king talking to the grand-vizir of all the anxiety his son had caused him.
Who acts: prince, king, son · What happens: find, talk, cause · To what, where: king, prince
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, king, son), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 found | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obj |
| 6 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 king | acl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 vizir | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 vizir | det |
| 9 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 vizir | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 grand | punct |
| 11 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 caused | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 anxiety | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 anxiety | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 anxiety | det |
| 15 | anxiety | anxiety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 vizir | nmod |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 son | nmod:poss |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 caused | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 caused | aux |
| 19 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 talking | ccomp |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 caused | iobj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | prince | the king | here | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Topic | |||
| 2 | talk | gerund | the king not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cause | past · perfect | prince's son | prince | to the grand vizir of all anxiety | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition he=Patient |
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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