The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 96
Before long the prince was quite restored to his original state of health, and as soon as he felt himself really strong he took Marzavan aside and said:
Who acts: prince · What happens: long, restore, feel, take, say · To what, where: prince, original state, Marzavan · 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 (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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 2 long | mark |
| 2 | long | long | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 restored | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 long | obj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 restored | aux:pass |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 restored | advmod |
| 7 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 state | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 state | nmod:poss |
| 10 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 state | amod |
| 11 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 restored | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 health | case |
| 13 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 state | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 felt | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 felt | cc |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 soon | advmod |
| 17 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 felt | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 felt | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 felt | nsubj |
| 20 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 restored | conj |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 felt | obj |
| 22 | really | really | ADV | _ | 23 strong | advmod |
| 23 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 felt | xcomp |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 took | nsubj |
| 25 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 felt | ccomp |
| 26 | Marzavan | Marzavan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 took | obj |
| 27 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 25 took | advmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 said | cc |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 took | conj |
| 30 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 restored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | long | gerund | the prince | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | restore | past · passive | prince's original state of health | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: to state=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | feel | past | prince | prince | soon, strong property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | take | past | prince | Marzavan | aside property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument marzavan=Destination | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | prince not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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