The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 59
When he had finished the king exclaimed: "So remarkable a story must not be lost to posterity.
Who acts: Prince, king · What happens: finish, exclaim, not lose · 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, king), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 finished | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 finished | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | aux |
| 4 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 exclaimed | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 7 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 exclaimed | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 lost | punct |
| 10 | So | so | ADV | _ | 17 lost | advmod |
| 11 | remarkable | remarkable | ADP | _ | 13 story | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 story | det |
| 13 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lost | obl |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 lost | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 lost | advmod |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 lost | aux:pass |
| 17 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 exclaimed | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 posterity | case |
| 19 | posterity | posterity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lost | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect | Prince | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | the king | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not lose in a quote | must · passive | the king not said here | remarkable a story; to posterity | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V» |
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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