The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 95
The king was overjoyed at the result of Marzavan's interview, and ordered public rejoicings in honour of the prince's recovery.
Who acts: Marzavan, prince · What happens: overjoy, order, result, interview, honour, recover · To what, where: king, result, public rejoicings, honour, interview, recovery
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, prince), 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 overjoyed | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 overjoyed | aux:pass |
| 4 | overjoyed | overjoy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 result | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 result | det |
| 7 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 overjoyed | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 interview | case |
| 9 | Marzavan | Marzavan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 interview | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Marzavan | case |
| 11 | interview | interview | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 result | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ordered | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ordered | cc |
| 14 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 overjoyed | parataxis |
| 15 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 rejoicings | amod |
| 16 | rejoicings | rejoicing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ordered | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 honour | case |
| 18 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ordered | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 recovery | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 prince | det |
| 21 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 recovery | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 prince | case |
| 23 | recovery | recovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 honour | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 overjoyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overjoy | past · passive | the king | the result of Marzavan's interview | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | order | past | public rejoicings | honour of the prince's recovery | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rejoicing=Theme | ||||
| 3 | result | Marzavan's interview | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | interview | Marzavan | nom interview «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | honour | the prince's recovery | nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | recover | the prince | nom recovery «event intransitive»: 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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