The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 13
The prince, whose arm was getting tired, paused.
Who acts: prince · What happens: get, pause
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 (prince), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 getting | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 arm | punct |
| 4 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 5 arm | nmod:poss |
| 5 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 prince | conj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 getting | aux |
| 7 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 getting | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 paused | punct |
| 10 | paused | pause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 getting | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 getting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · progressive | the prince and the prince and the prince's arm's arm | tired property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | pause | participle | the prince and the prince and the prince's arm's arm not said here | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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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