The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 79
Marzavan journeyed from city to city and from one island and province to another, and wherever he went he heard people talk of the strange story of the Princess Badoura, as the Princess of China was named.
Who acts: Marzavan, patience, people · What happens: journey, go, hear, talk, name · To what, where: city, Princess · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Marzavan, patience, people), 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 | Marzavan | Marzavan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 journeyed | nsubj |
| 2 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 city | case |
| 4 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 journeyed | obl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 city | case |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 journeyed | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 island | cc |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 island | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 island | nummod |
| 10 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 city | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 province | cc |
| 12 | province | province | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 island | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 another | case |
| 14 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 island | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 heard | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 heard | cc |
| 17 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 went | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 went | nsubj |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 heard | advcl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 heard | nsubj |
| 21 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 journeyed | parataxis |
| 22 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 talk | nsubj |
| 23 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 heard | ccomp |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 story | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 story | det |
| 26 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 story | amod |
| 27 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 talk | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Badoura | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Badoura | det |
| 30 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Badoura | compound |
| 31 | Badoura | Badoura | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 story | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 named | punct |
| 33 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 39 named | mark |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Princess | det |
| 35 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 named | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 China | case |
| 37 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Princess | nmod |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 named | aux:pass |
| 39 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 heard | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 journeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | journey | past | Marzavan | city | to city and one island to another and province | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to city=Destination | |||
| 2 | go | past | patience | wherever property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | patience | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | talk | present | people | of the strange story of the Princess Badoura | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | name | past · passive | the Princess of China | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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