The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 37
"At last an embassy came from a king so rich and powerful that the King of China felt constrained to urge this suit on his daughter.
Who acts: King · What happens: come, feel, constrain, urge · To what, where: last embassy, suit
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 (King), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
| 2 | At | at | ADP | _ | 5 embassy | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 embassy | amod |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 embassy | det |
| 5 | embassy | embassy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 king | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 rich | advmod |
| 11 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 came | advcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 powerful | cc |
| 13 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 rich | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 felt | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 felt | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 China | case |
| 18 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 King | nmod |
| 19 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 powerful | advcl |
| 20 | constrained | constrain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 felt | xcomp |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 urge | mark |
| 22 | urge | urge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 constrained | xcomp |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 suit | det |
| 24 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 urge | obj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 daughter | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 27 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 urge | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | past | a last embassy | from a king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from king=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | feel in a quote | past | the King of China | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | constrain in a quote | participle | the King of China not said here | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Causer clause=Goal | |||||
| 4 | urge in a quote | to-infinitive | the King of China not said here | this suit | on China's daughter | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suit=Recipient |
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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