The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 23
The king, much distressed, determined to clear up the matter himself, and, ordering the vizir to follow him, set out to visit his son.
What happens: distress, clear up, order, follow, set out, visit · To what, where: king, matter, vizir, son
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: 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 determined | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 distressed | punct |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 distressed | advmod |
| 5 | distressed | distress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 king | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 determined | punct |
| 7 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 clear | mark |
| 9 | clear | clear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 determined | xcomp |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 clear | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 matter | det |
| 12 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 clear | obj |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 clear | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 set | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 set | cc |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ordering | punct |
| 17 | ordering | order | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 set | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 vizir | det |
| 19 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ordering | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 follow | mark |
| 21 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 ordering | advcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 follow | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 set | punct |
| 24 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 determined | conj |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 set | compound:prt |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 visit | mark |
| 27 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 set | advcl |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 son | nmod:poss |
| 29 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 visit | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | distress | participle | the king not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | clear up | to-infinitive | the matter | king obl | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent matter=Source | ||||
| 3 | order | gerund | the vizir | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vizir=Theme | |||||
| 4 | follow | to-infinitive | king | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||||
| 5 | set out | past | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | visit | to-infinitive | king's son | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Co-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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