The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 5
At this Camaralzaman grew so angry and spoke with so much heat that the king, naturally irritated at being opposed by his son in full council, ordered the prince to be arrested and locked up in an old tower, where he had nothing but a very little furniture, a few books, and a single slave to wait on him.
Who acts: Camaralzaman, son, king · What happens: grow, speak, irritate, oppose, order, arrest · To what, where: king, prince, old tower, nothing · 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 (Camaralzaman, son, 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 | At | at | SCONJ | _ | 4 grew | mark |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 Camaralzaman | det |
| 3 | Camaralzaman | Camaralzaman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 angry | advmod |
| 6 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 grew | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 spoke | cc |
| 8 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grew | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 heat | case |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 much | advmod |
| 11 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 heat | amod |
| 12 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spoke | obl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 ordered | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 ordered | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 irritated | punct |
| 17 | naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 18 irritated | advmod |
| 18 | irritated | irritate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 king | acl:relcl |
| 19 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 21 opposed | mark |
| 20 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 opposed | aux:pass |
| 21 | opposed | oppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 irritated | xcomp |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 son | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 son | nmod:poss |
| 24 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 opposed | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 council | case |
| 26 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 council | amod |
| 27 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 son | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 king | punct |
| 29 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 heat | advcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 prince | det |
| 31 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 ordered | obj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 arrested | mark |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 arrested | aux:pass |
| 34 | arrested | arrest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 ordered | conj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 locked | cc |
| 36 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 arrested | conj |
| 37 | up | up | ADP | _ | 36 locked | compound:prt |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 tower | case |
| 39 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 tower | det |
| 40 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 tower | amod |
| 41 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 locked | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 had | punct |
| 43 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 45 had | advmod |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 had | nsubj |
| 45 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 tower | acl:relcl |
| 46 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 45 had | obj |
| 47 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 51 furniture | cc |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 furniture | det |
| 49 | very | very | ADV | _ | 50 little | advmod |
| 50 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 furniture | amod |
| 51 | furniture | furniture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 nothing | conj |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 books | punct |
| 53 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 55 books | det |
| 54 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 books | amod |
| 55 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 nothing | conj |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 slave | punct |
| 57 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 60 slave | cc |
| 58 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 60 slave | det |
| 59 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 60 slave | amod |
| 60 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grew | conj |
| 61 | to | to | PART | _ | 62 wait | mark |
| 62 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 60 slave | acl |
| 63 | on | on | ADP | _ | 64 him | case |
| 64 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 62 wait | obl |
| 65 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | this Camaralzaman | angry property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | this Camaralzaman not said here | with much heat | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with heat=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | irritate | participle | the king not said here | naturally property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | oppose | gerund · passive | Camaralzaman's son in full council | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | order | past | the king | the prince | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme | ||||
| 6 | arrest | to-infinitive · passive | the king not said here | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 7 | lock up | participle | the king not said here | a old tower | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 8 | have | past | son | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 9 | wait | to-infinitive | this Camaralzaman not said here | on son | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=Location |
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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