The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 30
Camaralzaman did so at great length, showed the ring, and implored his father to help to find the bride he so ardently desired.
Who acts: Camaralzaman · What happens: do, show, implore, help, find, desire · To what, where: great length, ring, father, bride
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 (Camaralzaman), 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 | Camaralzaman | Camaralzaman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 2 did | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 length | case |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 length | amod |
| 6 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 showed | punct |
| 8 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ring | det |
| 10 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 showed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 implored | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 implored | cc |
| 13 | implored | implore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 father | nmod:poss |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 implored | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 help | mark |
| 17 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 implored | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 find | mark |
| 19 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 help | xcomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bride | det |
| 21 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 find | obj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 desired | nsubj |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 desired | advmod |
| 24 | ardently | ardently | ADV | _ | 25 desired | advmod |
| 25 | desired | desire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 bride | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Camaralzaman | great length | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | show | past | Camaralzaman not said here | the ring | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ring=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | implore | past | Camaralzaman's father | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | help | to-infinitive | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | find | to-infinitive | the bride | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Topic | |||||
| 6 | desire | participle | Camaralzaman | the bride not said here | ardently property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bride=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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