The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 22
He then gave an exact account of his interview with Camaralzaman and of the prince's fury when told that it was not possible for any lady to have entered his room, and of the treatment he himself had received.
Who acts: sire, account, prince · What happens: give, tell, not be, enter, receive, account · To what, where: exact account, room, sire, interview · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (sire, account, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 gave | advmod |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 account | det |
| 5 | exact | exact | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 account | amod |
| 6 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 interview | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 interview | nmod:poss |
| 9 | interview | interview | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 account | nmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 Camaralzaman | case |
| 11 | Camaralzaman | Camaralzaman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 interview | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fury | cc |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 fury | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 prince | det |
| 15 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fury | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 prince | case |
| 17 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 interview | conj |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 told | advmod |
| 19 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 gave | advcl |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 possible | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 possible | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 possible | cop |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 possible | advmod |
| 24 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 told | advcl |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 lady | case |
| 26 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 lady | det |
| 27 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 told | obl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 entered | mark |
| 29 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 entered | aux |
| 30 | entered | enter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 told | ccomp |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 room | nmod:poss |
| 32 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 entered | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 received | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 received | cc |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 treatment | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 treatment | det |
| 37 | treatment | treatment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 received | obl |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 received | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 38 he | nmod:unmarked |
| 40 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 received | aux |
| 41 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 gave | advcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | sire | a exact account of sire's interview with Camaralzaman and the prince's fury | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Theme | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | participle | sire not said here | for any lady | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not is | past | account | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | enter not said to happen | to-infinitive · perfect | sire's room | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination | |||||
| 5 | receive | past · perfect · passive | sire | of the treatment | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 6 | account | sire's interview with Camaralzaman and the prince's fury | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | interview | sire | with Camaralzaman | nom interview «communication intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl | |||||
| 8 | infuriate | the prince | nom fury «feeling 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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