The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 17
This genie, whose name was Danhasch, recognised Maimoune with terror, for he knew the supremacy which her goodness gave her over him.
Who acts: name, genie, goodness, Danhasch · What happens: be, recognise, know, give, name · To what, where: Danhasch, Maimoune, supremacy
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 (name, genie, goodness, Danhasch), 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 genie | det |
| 2 | genie | genie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 recognised | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Danhasch | punct |
| 4 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 5 name | nmod:poss |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Danhasch | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Danhasch | cop |
| 7 | Danhasch | Danhasch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 genie | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 genie | punct |
| 9 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Maimoune | Maimoune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 recognised | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 terror | case |
| 12 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 recognised | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 knew | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 knew | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 knew | nsubj |
| 16 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 recognised | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 supremacy | det |
| 18 | supremacy | supremacy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 knew | obj |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 gave | obj |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 goodness | nmod:poss |
| 21 | goodness | goodness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gave | nsubj |
| 22 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 supremacy | acl:relcl |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 gave | iobj |
| 24 | over | over | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 gave | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 recognised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Danhasch's name | Danhasch | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | recognise | past | this genie | Maimoune | with terror | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer maimoune=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | know | past | genie | the supremacy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer supremacy=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | give | past | Maimoune's goodness | the supremacy | Maimoune | over genie | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient which=Theme | ||
| 5 | name | Danhasch | nom name «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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