The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 4
At length a day came when the Sultan summoned him before the council, and there informed him that not only his own wishes but the good of the empire demanded his marriage, and desired him to give his answer before the assembled ministers.
Who acts: Sultan, own wishes, son · What happens: come, summon, inform, demand, desire, give · To what, where: length, son, marriage, answer
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 (Sultan, own wishes, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 length | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 summoned | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Sultan | det |
| 8 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 summoned | nsubj |
| 9 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | advcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 summoned | obj |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 council | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 council | det |
| 13 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 summoned | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 informed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 informed | cc |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 informed | advmod |
| 17 | informed | inform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 informed | iobj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 demanded | mark |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 wishes | advmod |
| 21 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 wishes | advmod |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 wishes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 wishes | amod |
| 24 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 demanded | nsubj |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 good | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 good | det |
| 27 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 wishes | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 empire | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 empire | det |
| 30 | empire | empire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 good | obl |
| 31 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 informed | advcl |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 33 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 demanded | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 desired | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 desired | cc |
| 36 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 desired | obj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 give | mark |
| 39 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 desired | xcomp |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 answer | nmod:poss |
| 41 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 give | obj |
| 42 | before | before | ADP | _ | 45 ministers | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 ministers | det |
| 44 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 ministers | amod |
| 45 | ministers | minister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 give | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | length a day | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location | |||||
| 2 | summon | past | the Sultan | son | before the council | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | inform speech: other | past | son | there | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | demand speech: request | past | son's own wishes | son's marriage | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme marriage=Precondition | ||||
| 5 | desire | past | son | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | son's answer | before the assembled ministers | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme | ||||
| 7 | assemble | participle | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | wish | son | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | marry | son | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 10 | answer | son | nom answer «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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