The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 7
The grand-vizir felt beside himself at this question.
Who acts: grand vizir · What happens: feel · To what, where: question
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 (grand 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 vizir | det |
| 2 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 vizir | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 grand | punct |
| 4 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 felt | nsubj |
| 5 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 7 himself | case |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 felt | obl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 question | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 question | det |
| 10 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 felt | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the grand vizir | this question | beside vizir | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent beside himself=Location |
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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