The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 32
The report of her wonderful beauty has spread far and wide, and many powerful kings have sent embassies to ask her hand in marriage.
What happens: spread, send, ask, report · To what, where: report, many powerful kings, hand, marriage, wonderful beauty
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: 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 report | det |
| 2 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spread | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 beauty | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 beauty | amod |
| 6 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 report | nmod |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 spread | aux |
| 8 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 spread | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wide | cc |
| 11 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 far | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sent | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sent | cc |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 kings | amod |
| 15 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 kings | amod |
| 16 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 sent | aux |
| 18 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 spread | conj |
| 19 | embassies | embassy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sent | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 ask | mark |
| 21 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 sent | advcl |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 hand | nmod:poss |
| 23 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ask | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 marriage | case |
| 25 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ask | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | present · perfect · passive | the report of princess's wonderful beauty | far property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | send | present · perfect · passive | many powerful kings | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination embassy=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | princess's hand | marriage | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hand=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | report | princess's wonderful beauty | nom report «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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