The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 18
On perceiving his youth, good looks, and distinguished bearing, everyone felt pity for him.
Who acts: everyone · What happens: perceive, feel · To what, where: youth, pity
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everyone), 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 perceiving | mark |
| 2 | perceiving | perceive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 felt | advcl |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 youth | nmod:poss |
| 4 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 perceiving | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 looks | punct |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 looks | amod |
| 7 | looks | look | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 youth | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bearing | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bearing | cc |
| 10 | distinguished | distinguished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bearing | amod |
| 11 | bearing | bearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 youth | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 perceiving | punct |
| 13 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 14 felt | nsubj |
| 14 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 felt | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 felt | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perceive | gerund | everyone not said here | Prince's youth and good looks and distinguished bearing | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer youth=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | everyone | pity | for Prince | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent pity=Location for he=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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