The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 122
He then gave a minute account of all the prince had said and done.
Who acts: Doubt · What happens: give, say, do, account · To what, where: minute account, prince · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Doubt), 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 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 gave | advmod |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 account | det |
| 5 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 account | compound |
| 6 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 prince | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 prince | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prince | det |
| 10 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 account | nmod |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | aux |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 gave | ccomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 done | cc |
| 14 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 said | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Doubt | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | a minute account of all prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do | participle | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | account | all prince | nom account «communication transitive»: of=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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