The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 60
Danhasch readily consented, and after having the tower where the prince was confined pointed out to him, and making a wager with Maimoune as to the result of the comparison, he flew off to China to fetch the princess.
Who acts: Danhasch · What happens: consent, have, confine, point out, make, fly off · To what, where: tower, prince, wager, China, princess, comparison
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 (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 | Danhasch | Danhasch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 consented | nsubj |
| 2 | readily | readily | ADV | _ | 3 consented | advmod |
| 3 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 having | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 having | cc |
| 6 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 7 having | mark |
| 7 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 consented | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tower | det |
| 9 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 having | obj |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 confined | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 prince | det |
| 12 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 confined | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 confined | aux:pass |
| 14 | confined | confine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 tower | acl:relcl |
| 15 | pointed | point | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 confined | xcomp |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 pointed | compound:prt |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 pointed | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 flew | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 flew | cc |
| 21 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 flew | advcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 wager | det |
| 23 | wager | wager | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 making | obj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 Maimoune | case |
| 25 | Maimoune | Maimoune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 wager | nmod |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 result | case |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 result | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 result | det |
| 29 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 making | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 comparison | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 comparison | det |
| 32 | comparison | comparison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 result | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 making | punct |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 flew | nsubj |
| 35 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 consented | conj |
| 36 | off | off | ADP | _ | 35 flew | compound:prt |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 China | case |
| 38 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 flew | obl |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 fetch | mark |
| 40 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 flew | advcl |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 princess | det |
| 42 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 fetch | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 consented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consent | past | Danhasch | readily property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund | Danhasch not said here | the tower | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tower=Patient | ||||
| 3 | confine | past · passive | the prince | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Goal | |||||
| 4 | point out | participle | prince | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | make | gerund | Danhasch not said here | a wager | with Maimoune; as the result of the comparison | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wager=Product | |||
| 6 | fly off | past | Danhasch | China | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to china=Result | ||||
| 7 | fetch | to-infinitive | Danhasch not said here | the princess | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme | ||||
| 8 | result | the comparison | nom result «phenomenon 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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