The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 86
On hearing this Marzavan rejoiced inwardly, for he felt sure that he had at last discovered the object of the Princess Badoura's infatuation.
Who acts: vizir, Princess Badoura · What happens: hear, rejoice, feel, have, discover, infatuate · To what, where: Marzavan, object, last
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 (vizir, Princess Badoura), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 hearing | mark |
| 2 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 rejoiced | advcl |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 Marzavan | det |
| 4 | Marzavan | Marzavan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hearing | obj |
| 5 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | inwardly | inwardly | ADV | _ | 5 rejoiced | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 felt | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 felt | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 felt | nsubj |
| 10 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rejoiced | conj |
| 11 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 felt | xcomp |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 had | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 felt | advcl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 last | case |
| 16 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 discovered | obl |
| 17 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 had | ccomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 object | det |
| 19 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 discovered | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 infatuation | 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 | 25 infatuation | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 Badoura | case |
| 25 | infatuation | infatuation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 object | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rejoiced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | this Marzavan | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer marzavan=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | rejoice | past | inwardly property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | feel | past | vizir | sure property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | have | past | vizir | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | discover | past | vizir not said here | the object of the Princess Badoura's infatuation | last | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent object=Topic | |||
| 6 | infatuate | the Princess Badoura | nom infatuation «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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