The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 3
"I feel really very angry with your slave for alarming his Majesty by the news he brought him."
Who acts: vizir · What happens: feel, alarm, bring · To what, where: Majesty, news, king
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 (vizir), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 feel | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 feel | nsubj |
| 3 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 angry | advmod |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 angry | advmod |
| 6 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 feel | xcomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 slave | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 slave | nmod:poss |
| 9 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 angry | obl |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 alarming | mark |
| 11 | alarming | alarm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 feel | advcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 13 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 alarming | obj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 news | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 news | det |
| 16 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 alarming | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 brought | nsubj |
| 18 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 news | acl:relcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 brought | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 feel | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel in a quote | present | the vizir = vizir | angry property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | alarm in a quote | gerund | the vizir = vizir not said here | vizir's Majesty | by the news | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus majesty=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | bring in a quote | past | vizir | the news not said here | king | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
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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