The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 11
At last, losing patience, he seized the vizir by the beard and loaded him with blows.
Who acts: last losing patience · What happens: lose, seize, load · To what, where: vizir
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last losing patience), 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 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 patience | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 losing | punct |
| 4 | losing | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 patience | amod |
| 5 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seized | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 patience | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 seized | nsubj |
| 8 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 vizir | det |
| 10 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seized | obj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 beard | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 beard | det |
| 13 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seized | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 loaded | cc |
| 15 | loaded | load | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 seized | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 loaded | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 blows | case |
| 18 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 loaded | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | gerund | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | seize | past | last losing patience | the vizir | by the beard | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vizir=Theme | |||
| 3 | load | past | last losing patience not said here | vizir | with blows | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with blow=Theme |
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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