The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 80
After four months he reached a large populous seaport town named Torf, and here he heard no more of the Princess Badoura but a great deal of Prince Camaralzaman, who was reported ill, and whose story sounded very similar to that of the Princess Badoura.
Who acts: patience, story · What happens: reach, name, hear, report, sound, deal · To what, where: large populous seaport town, more, great deal, Prince
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 (patience, story), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 months | case |
| 2 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 months | nummod |
| 3 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 reached | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 reached | nsubj |
| 5 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 town | det |
| 7 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 town | amod |
| 8 | populous | populous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 town | amod |
| 9 | seaport | seaport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 town | compound |
| 10 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reached | obj |
| 11 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 town | acl |
| 12 | Torf | Torf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 named | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 heard | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 heard | cc |
| 15 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 heard | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 heard | nsubj |
| 17 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reached | parataxis |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 more | det |
| 19 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 heard | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Badoura | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Badoura | det |
| 22 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Badoura | compound |
| 23 | Badoura | Badoura | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 more | obl |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 deal | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 deal | det |
| 26 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 deal | amod |
| 27 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Badoura | appos |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Prince | case |
| 29 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 deal | nmod |
| 30 | Camaralzaman | Camaralzaman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Prince | flat |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 reported | punct |
| 32 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 reported | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 reported | aux:pass |
| 34 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 deal | parataxis |
| 35 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 reported | xcomp |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 sounded | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 sounded | cc |
| 38 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 39 story | nmod:poss |
| 39 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 sounded | nsubj |
| 40 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 heard | conj |
| 41 | very | very | ADV | _ | 42 similar | advmod |
| 42 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 sounded | xcomp |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 that | case |
| 44 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 42 similar | obl |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 Badoura | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 Badoura | det |
| 47 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 Badoura | compound |
| 48 | Badoura | Badoura | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 that | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | patience | a large populous seaport town | month | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent town=Theme | |||
| 2 | name | participle | a large populous seaport town not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hear | past | patience | no more | here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | report | past · passive | a great deal of Prince | ill property | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | sound | past | story | similar property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | deal | Prince | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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