The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 23
"He is resolved to die!" they cried; "may heaven have pity on him!"
Who acts: conditions, heaven · What happens: resolve, die, cry, have · To what, where: Prince, pity · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (conditions, heaven), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 resolved | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 resolved | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 resolved | aux:pass |
| 4 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 cried | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 die | mark |
| 6 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 resolved | xcomp |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 resolved | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 resolved | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cried | nsubj |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 heaven | punct |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 heaven | aux |
| 14 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 cried | conj |
| 16 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 have | obl |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resolve in a quote | present · passive | Prince | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | die in a quote | to-infinitive | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | conditions = condition | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | heaven | pity | on Prince | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=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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