The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 58
He then told his whole history, including the extraordinary manner of his first seeing and loving the Princess Badoura.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: tell, see, love · To what, where: whole history, extraordinary manner, Princess Badoura · 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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 told | advmod |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 history | nmod:poss |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 history | amod |
| 6 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 manner | punct |
| 8 | including | including | ADP | _ | 11 manner | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 manner | det |
| 10 | extraordinary | extraordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 manner | amod |
| 11 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obl |
| 12 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 seeing | mark |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 seeing | nsubj |
| 14 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 seeing | amod |
| 15 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 manner | acl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 loving | cc |
| 17 | loving | love | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 seeing | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Badoura | det |
| 19 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Badoura | compound |
| 20 | Badoura | Badoura | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 loving | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Prince | Prince's whole history | then | including the extraordinary manner | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent history=Recipient | ||
| 2 | see | gerund | Prince | the extraordinary manner not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer manner=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | love | gerund | Prince not said here | the Princess Badoura | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer badoura=Stimulus |
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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