The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 4
Then Marzavan awoke and roused the prince without disturbing anyone else.
Who acts: Marzavan · What happens: awake, rouse, disturb · To what, where: prince, anyone
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 (Marzavan), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 awoke | advmod |
| 2 | Marzavan | Marzavan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 awoke | nsubj |
| 3 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 roused | cc |
| 5 | roused | rouse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 awoke | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 roused | obj |
| 8 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 9 disturbing | mark |
| 9 | disturbing | disturb | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 roused | advcl |
| 10 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 disturbing | obj |
| 11 | else | else | ADV | _ | 10 anyone | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | Marzavan | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rouse | past | Marzavan not said here | the prince | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Patient | ||||
| 3 | disturb | gerund | Marzavan not said here | anyone | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus anyone=Experiencer |
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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