The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 56

The king himself came to hear the rights of the matter, but the princess only persisted in her story, and as a proof showed the ring on her finger.

Who acts: king, princess, proof · What happens: come, hear, persist, show · To what, where: rights, story, ring, finger

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 (king, princess, proof), 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	4 came	nsubj
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	2 king	nmod:unmarked
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 hear	mark
6	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rights	det
8	rights	right	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hear	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 matter	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 matter	det
11	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rights	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 persisted	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 persisted	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 princess	det
15	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 persisted	nsubj
16	only	only	ADV	_	17 persisted	advmod
17	persisted	persist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 story	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 story	nmod:poss
20	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 persisted	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 showed	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 showed	cc
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 showed	mark
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 proof	det
25	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 showed	nsubj
26	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 ring	det
28	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 showed	obj
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 finger	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 finger	nmod:poss
31	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 showed	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come	past	the king king			tree rules
2	hear	to-infinitive	the king king not said here	the rights of the matter		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer right=Stimulus
3	persist	past	the princess		Princess's story	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in story=Location
4	show	past	a proof	the ring	Princess's finger	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ring=Recipient

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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